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Originally Posted by pidgeon92
All eink readers render PDFs equally badly. You'll find the experience tends to be best on the largest screen you can afford.
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They don't render PDFs equally badly; some are much worse than others.
They do, however, range from "just barely tolerable if you have sharp eyes and a love for tiny text" to "atrocious; don't even bother." None of them are good, and yes, screen size is the #1 aspect of the more-tolerable ereaders.
Back to the original poster:
The problem with PDFs on ereaders is that the rendering depends a lot on how the PDF was made--which the receiver has no control over. PDFs created from Office 97 or later tend to be fine; the ereaders that have reflow deal with those fairly well. PDFs created with InDesign tend to be untagged and reflow is more troublesome, and leaves in the headers & footers on every page. (And that's for normal text. InDesign magazines tend to have extra artwork bits showing up in odd places.) PDFs made from scans... well, you have a page. It doesn't change no matter how much you poke at it, unless you have a reader with zoom instead of reflow, in which case, you can scroll around the page to read it. (Do any of the newer ereaders have zoom instead of/in addition to reflow?)