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Originally Posted by Mastiff
Graham, I think I will prefer to use a widescreen and hold it in portrait mode. That gives you 600x1024, and that should fit most pdf's pretty well, I think.
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I hope it works for you, Mastiff, but for me that makes the text of the PDFs I read too small. It's exactly equivalent to turning my netbook sideways. The PDF doesn't fill the screen in that mode, if you want a full page. You get about an inch of black space at the top and bottom. Cropping to the margins helps a little, but not enough.
If I do use my 10.1" 1024x600 netbook to read PDFs I use landscape mode, which gives a reasonable text size. but I only get about a third of the page on the screen. The PDFs I read tend to have at least two columns, with images inset, and that leads to a lot of scrolling around the page on the netbook. Admittedly that would be slightly easier with a touchscreen, but those extra 168 pixels make quite a difference, held either as portrait or landscape.
Graham