[BensonBear]

I just signed up here, read through a lot, saw that some of this has been said before, but I will give my views about this one particular issue for a starter.

Better PDF reading is crucial. To make this request as easy to satisfy as possible, we should restrict it at first to the simplest case: single column books and articles which are probably the most common sorts of material by far.

For most of us, this material will require landscape mode, and then a zoom as large as possible to get rid of the margins which are taking up needed space. The zoom and horizontal positioning should be saved across invocations, and upon opening the document, applied.

Then, the crucial thing is that the basic tap functionality must work the same as it does for epubs. A right tap should advance the document to the next readable section, regardless of where in a page this is. So in a particular case this is either further down on the same page, or to the top of the next page. Similarly for left tap.

What is done now is no good for easy reading. One has to spend way too much uncomfortable time trying to scroll up or down, losing track of where one was reading, accidentally also scrolling left or right, and waiting for the screen to update in very ugly fashion. Then, only when one is confident the end of the page is reached, one must scroll to the extreme left or right to get to the region where a tap advances the page.

Awful!

It will be necessary to retain the ability to scroll when things get a little messed up, but it should be secondary. (This will require more dedicated regions for the left and right tap, but this is no big deal. The whole thing is really quite easy. There is a slight difficulty in that without examining the contents of the page it is a little difficult to tell how to scroll down to the next unread section. It is not easy to figure it out *exactly* but the program can err on the side of caution and perhaps overlap a line or so).

To avoid the need for much scrolling in normal reading mode, one possibility is to save the zoom factor, plus *two* horizontal positionings, one for the odd pages and one for the even pages. This also is easy.

This would make pdfs readable with much more ease. And it is not so hard to do.

After this, bookmarking for pdfs should be added. The program does not have to extract the text from the page displayed, but just remember at the very worst the page number, and maybe even the physical location on the page. No need to dig into the page contents if that is harder to do. But bookmarks are very important in this sort of system where one cannot see the big picture with ease.