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Originally Posted by janpeeters
The reason that I wanted to be able to organize was that with big libraries it takes a lot of time to find a book (e.g. if you don't recall the title or author search is useless). So knowing that it was about psychology or natural science makes it easier to retrieve.
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I asked this because there are two broad sorts of reason one would want to "organize". One, to find individual things easily, and two, so that the organize relates things together in a way that they might be used together. If you only need the first of these, it is not so difficult to do. But then a good search command may often be better than "shelves". Each would serve a purpose, but that specific purpose of finding a book is only one reason for wanting to, as you say "organize organize organize".
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Apps like GoodReader on Apple iOS have the possibility to reflow the text. This means that the text get's ripped out of the PDF and redrawn so that you're not stuck with small characters on long lines or have to scroll through a line of text to read the PDF. It starts behaving like a normal ebook, where you can change typesize, lineheight etc.
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I have not seen that one, but with most attempts at "pdf reflow" you are left with things "flowed" together that should not be. Do you think that if for the pdfs you want to read, you slip into landscape mode, and zoom to the max without requiring panning (to take off the side margins), you would get good enough pdf rendering without the two problems you mention? I think that is good enough for most typical books and is quite easy to do.
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I read your reply on reflow. Of course you can do this with Calibre, and it's probably the best way to go, but especially when you have to do a lot of PDF (or Word-doc) reading for your work it's most convenient if you could just hook up your Kobo reader, drag the PDFs on the disk, disconnect hop on a train and start reading. So a simple implementation would be nice.
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I think the above suggestion would be good enough, but if not, the reason I mentioned third party conversion is that you will be somewhat able to tune that the way you want, but if Kobo does reflow you probably won't. Given there is no objective definition of what pdf reflow is, its good to have lots of options out there for it.