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Originally Posted by emalvick
WHen I was in graduate school I was reading a lot of papers in big chunks. Eink wasn't around (nor were tablets), but I absolutely hated the headaches I would get trying to read them off my LCD monitor. I can't imagine I would have liked reading 100's of papers on an IPad or similar tablet because I still would have gotten the headache. ...
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I've read many, many hundreds of ebooks over the last 16-18 years on a very wide range of LCD devices with no eyestrain issues. Displays have improved massively in recent years and eyestrain is not really an issue if you see your optometrist regularly and where correction lenses as necessary.
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... PDF's aren't that memory intensive on a device. They would really only have to load a bit at a time anyway. ....
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Incorrect. You have to load the complete PDF and read through every byte before you can begin to render anything. PDF is not a linear format where the first page is always the first data and the last page is at the end of the file. You can easily have part of any page at the beginning of the data stream and have one element on that page be near the very end of the data.