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Originally Posted by Abbyroza
Have all the people here who advise a tablet instead of an e-reader to read PDF's ever tried to read anything on a tablet in bright sunlight? I'm looking for an e-reader too, because on holiday, I want to read all the books I have - in pdf-format- and that just does not work on my iPad. Too much reflection and not enough brightness.
So, I hope to get an answer, other than 'buy a tablet'. I have one.
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I read pdfs on a iPad in bright sunlight without any problem, because I use good ultra anti-glare (matte) protector and shade cap (reduces the light reflection off of our face considerably), and if necessary, sunglasses.
I've also got a couple of homemade cardboard sunshades but I seldom use it because there is no need, but when I do, I can further reduce the brightness to about 65-70 %.
Nevertheless, 75 % of time I would use Kindle DX in bright sunlight rather then iPad.
If you don't need to annotate pdfs by handwriting, and pdf underscoring is enough for you, then you can buy used or new Kindle DX,
install kindlepdfviewer thereon in a couple of minutes and, like me, enjoy reading pdf, djvu, epub, cbz, html and of course mobi books on your big e-ink.
You can use Kindle DX even if you plan a lot of handwriting on pdfs but then you should simultaneously use tablet for handwriting while reading on e-ink.
When M96 comes out next year, you can kiss your DX goodbye, like I will do if M96's price will be close to my liking, because regrettably Sony DPT-S1's will not be.
The majority of pdf books there, are easily readable in portraite mode and A4 pdfs in landscape mode using kindlepdfviewer's fit-to-document-content-width that will even give us a slight letter magnification in comparison to the original paper size.
If some pdf files (like those from archive.org) take to long to flip them through (like 3-4 seconds per page or more) because of its complex compression method, you can use k2pdfopt (default bitmap mode) to quickly and easily adjust pdf for Kindle Dx beforehand and it will again flip through the pages in a second.