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Originally Posted by CedroRosso
@Jackie: Thanks for the link, might prove useful, though I'm hoping that since I'm reading almost uniformly text social science articles that I won't have to go through so many steps... am I being naive?
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Don't panic
I don't think you would need to scan/OCR all your articles. If it's an article you want to read many times it would be worth learning how to crop all the useless whitespace margins around the PDF edges. This is done on the PC not the reader. The free cropper Briss is very good. It should take you less than 15 minutes to learn how to use it the first time.
If your articles are laid out in 2 or 3 columns then the PDF software on the Sony PRSx50s can be told to read your PDF that way. I'm not sure whether other readers have the same capability.
The Sonys can also be set to darken the text in your PDF. I've found this very helpful.
If your articles are plain text single-column PDFs and don't have headers/footers on every page then a simple PDF-to-epub (or mobi) using Calibre may work perfectly well. Minimal effort is required to do that and the result would be readable on any reader.
Every PDF will be different. You have to mix-and-match the various PC utilities and reader PDF features to get the best result you can with the minimum effort you're prepared to put in.
If you want to post a typical PDF article (non-copyright, of course), I'd be happy to post some screencaps from my PRS650 or a Calibre-converted epub.