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Originally Posted by some call me tim
You lost me there. I'm new to ereaders, but I haven't seen anything wrong with a (properly formatted) epub on my 505. PDFs on the other hand, look like poop unless you want to read them in their ultra tiny native size.
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It depends on the page size of the PDFs. For some odd reason, people here assume
ALL PDfs are letter or A4 sized. In the past 24 hours, I have created two PDFs especially for my JBL (an address book and a book catalog of all the books I have on calibre so far). Both have the pages sized to be a readable size when the JBL is set to show each page full screen (a setting that, once made, is persistant and doesn't have to be done again unless I reset the JBL itself).
My PDF books were created by scanning my p-books. Each page of the PDF retains the original size of the book; they are not stuck in some corner of a letter or A4 sized screen. When I set the JBL to display the width of the text, all but the largest books are easily read when read in landscape (and even the large ones can be read if the light is good and I'm in the mood; and I have to wear trifocals!). Because of the way the battery bump on the back of the JBL causes it to lean when set on a table, the majority of the time, I read in landscape anyway (that way, the battery bump acts like a kickstand). The two PDFs I recently created are for quick reference which means the JBL will be held while reading them, so I have them set for portrait viewing to cut down on scrolling.