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Originally Posted by khalleron
You can read the footnotes, sure. If the document is properly formatted for ereaders, it will use hyperlinks for footnotes. If it's not, then it becomes fairly difficult to locate the proper footnote.
You can only copy text from ebooks if they are DRM-free.
No e-ink reader is optimized for pdf. Of the e-ink readers, the Sony probably handles them the best. If what you need is mainly a pdf reader, I would recommend a tablet over an e-ink reader.
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I agree the PDF support is very good for an e-ink reader. The only thing I would change is the behavior of page turn buttons when zoomed: it should do some intelligent panning using the page buttons so you can navigate more easily. I think previous Sony models did this, as does Kindle Touch, sort of (but doesn't have landscape right now).
Update: A little more poking around, and I discovered the Page Mode settings (one of the Customize View settings). It's a little tricky, but I can almost achieve what I want by:
- choose More, Orientation to put into landscape mode
- choose Customize View, Crop Page, Manual
- adjust the crop zone so it eliminates headers/footers or at least the whitespace above and below any actual text, make sure it is centered horizontally, Done
- choose Customize View
- choose Page Mode, set to 'fit landscape width'
There are still margins on the sides that could be eliminated if the crop tool worked correctly (the orientation of the crop tool should match the page's orientation, not the screen's).
And with the 2 and 3 column page modes, PDFs with columns can be digested nicely.
I guess there is no PDF reflow as with previous models, but that hardly ever works well, so for me the crop tool and column navigation modes are better.