Thread: Touch Unable to read PDF books
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Old 02-23-2012, 02:30 AM   #7
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It's really not a question of satisfaction. You simply cannot read the PDF I tried. Zoomed out, it is far to small to be human readable. Zoomed in, you can read it - only bits at a time as you pan around, and you can't turn to the next page without multiple swipes or touches. I am starting to wish it wasn't a touchscreen device, and they'd provided a button to turn the page.

What is most annoying is that I bought the Kobo Touch as an upgrade to the cheap Astak/Jinke reader I already had. The Jinke is a few years old, and THEY have had PDF reflow right from when I bought it. I never imagined the kobo software would be so far behind in it's capabilities, as the device itself has all the new/better hardware - i.e. wifi, much clearer pearl screen, touch screen etc.

My solution is obviously to use my old device for PDF reading, and hope the world turns to epub in a big way, and drops the PDF format.
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