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Originally Posted by Pismire
On average sized devices, reading PDFs requires a lot of panning and re-sizing, and Images or formulas pose their own problems. What features would you expect from an A4-sized e-book reader for scientific publications? And what interactions of device and software would you find useful?
I am surprised there seems to be no market for A4 sized readers. Kindle DX (which seems to available on the amazon webpage again) is too small to make smaller text easily readable which in my mind disqualifies it for the purpose.
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Text on Kindle DX is not to small if A4 sized pdf is zoomed to fit-to-document-content-size in landscape mode or by two-point-cropping (for scans without OCR layer), because its 20 cm screen width is wider than 17-19 cm text width on A4 page (21 cm with borders included).
To be able to zoom that way we should install kindlepdfviewer thereon.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=2466450
Downside for scientific use is lack of annotations (there is highlighting though), handwriting capability, dictionary support, color, multitasking, WiFi.
All those shortcomings are easily circumvent by using tablet or other e-ink device simultaneously for those tasks.
There are now 10" readers like M92, Icarus Excel, Pocketbook that has got all those capabilities barring color, but some people would complain about their speed compared to tablets or lack of lighted screen.