[semioticwafture]

I tried reading PDF on a kobo touch today. I took an original and a cropped version of a mostly-text, single column document.

The original was too small for me to read when not zoomed, as expected. When zoomed, it was readable for me. However, there appeared to be no way to page down except by dragging, which causes inadvertent horizonal scrolling at the same time. I see that as impractical.

With the cropped file (which has the left and right margins removed), though it looks fine on my computer, on the kobo, the bottom of the page was chopped off. There was no evident way to scroll down to see the chopped-off part, regardless of zoom setting. It's possible this is the fault of the software I used (briss) rather than the kobo, but it's not encouraging.

Admittedly the staff in WH Smith were so keen to play with it with a PDF file loaded that I didn't get as much of a chance myself as I'd like! (the shop was close to closing) So it's possible I missed something. In particular, I didn't get to explore landscape mode properly, though I did try it briefly.