Richelieu--
When viewing in landscape mode, the reader simply takes a full size portrait page and shows the top half first and the bottom half second. One landscape page will show slightly more than a half of a portrait page. The effect of this is that the last lines showing on the first half of the page in landscape mode are repeated as the first lines on the bottom half of the page.
Hope this makes sense!
Regarding the dictionary not working with some PDF files--are those files converted image files? Can you get the text to reflow on them? If not, then they are probably image files instead of text files and the reader has no way of knowing what the words are.
dordale