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Originally Posted by Joykins
PDFs are fine for computer screens or larger tablets. Maybe.
They are horrible for e-readers.
It's impossible to adjust the fonts with any degree of granularity--in other words too large or too small, not usually "just right." Many people get e-readers because of the ability to adjust font size.
E-readers that attempt to "flow" pdfs end up having weird results in respect to hyphenation and page breaks. These are disruptive to the reading experience. So are the e-readers that force you to either read the pdf in too-small font or read only the right or left HALF of the page at a time. That's even worse.
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Or turn to landscape mode and just scroll down two or three screens per page (with cropped margins).
Majority of belletristic/fiction is in A5 or smaller format (150 mm page width) anyway, so after margin cropping it fits 120 mm of 6" reader in landscape mode just fine.
The same goes for A4 format and 10" readers like Kindle Dx.
I read a lot of scanned pdf's on my e-ink readers without any problem, with search, higlighting, handwriting etc. options included, rather than converting them to epub/mobi,
because i want the exact pdf on my reader as it is on paper (exact pdf image with OCR layer in background).
If I'm not satisfied with my 6" Sony's native cropping/landscape mode or reflowing of particular textual pdf I simply convert them with k2pdfopt or other apps to fit 6" screen in landscape mode or use Kindle dx or Kindle 3 (with kindlepdfviewer or Duokan installed).
Those with rooted android readers can use some good pdf reader for cropping/zooming in landscape mode.
k2pdfopt app can even reflow pdf scans (images) and we can then change letter size on 6" reader by changing dpi resolution in k2pdfopt.
So, for those who really want to read pdf's on 6" e-ink readers the situation is not that bad at all.
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