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Originally Posted by branni
I had one of the first or second gen paperwhites but returned it due to its near inability to handle PDFs. Converting the PDFs to a format native to the PW always fell short of the experience I was looking for as well.
Also, the experimental browser was hell to use.
So my criteria is a nice backlit e-ink reader than can handle all e-book formats, plus PDF, CBT etc, also with the ability to browse websites that are predominantly text-based.
I would even consider rooting and installing Android if that's the only way to get what I'm after.
Thanks in advance for the suggestions!
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Some advices for pdf readers and software.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...light=majority
8" e-ink readers with frontlight like PocketBook 840 or Bookeen Ocean might be good solution for you, because you can also use k2pdfopt to customize pdf for its screen beforehand, when reader's pdf capabilities (cropping, zooming, reflowing, flipping speed etc.) are not good enough for you.
Reading A5 pdf (margins cropped in landscape or portraite) or 2-column A4 pdf (2-column mode) on 6" or 8" reader should pose no problem.
Problem poses one-column A4 pdf, that should be readable on 8" reader in landscape mode (margins cropped) or by using k2pdfopt's reflow mode for pdf image.
Unlike reflow mode in e-ink readers that usually reflows just textual pdf or ocr layer behind pdf scanned image, k2pdfopt's reflow mode reflows scanned image itself, that's very important for those who read scientific pdfs with a lot of formulas, numbers and special symbols that tolerate no ocr errors.