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Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite
Perhaps it depends on the PDF concerned and how well you prepare it. I found the text is too small and too grey in portrait mode and I just couldn't adjust personally to reading in landscape mode. I suppose more accurately I could read the text but I didn't want to. Obviously I can read PDFs perfectly on the larger screen of my PC but that wasn't what I was saying.
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Because of the sheer number of books I'm having to scan, I do not have time to "prepare" my PDFs; each one is just a concatenated collection of images of each page. Readability of these books depends on the reader and how much compromise I'm willing to accept. I have two readers right now: an Aztak 6" Mentor and a 5" JetBook Lite. The Mentor is built better than the JBL but will not zoom on images so is almost usesless for books with larger physical dimensions (they
can be read but the text is very tiny. The JBL, even with only a 5" screen, has a setting called Fit Width that provides a persistant zoom that centers on the text of a page, even if the text is not centered on the original. Even books scanned from larger sized books becomes more readable, especially when in landscape mode. While more scrolling is required in landscape and lines are carried over, I find that to be an acceptable compromise until something else comes along that will work better, have acceptable battery life and will fit in a reasonably sized purse. See
here, post #26, for more details.