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Old 06-20-2017, 02:50 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
Just a comment on this. As far as I can tell, there is no problem with the rendering of PDF by the Kobo devices. The page matches what I see when I open the PDF on my PC (minus the colour). The performance is a problem. There is no problem with simple text pages, but complicated pages can be slow. But, the real issue to me is navigation. If you need to zoom into the page, then turning the page is clumsy. And moving to another part of the page is also clumsy. But, I have a couple of books, including a train timetable, that are designed with a page size roughly the same as my Glo HD, and they work very well.
A useful clarification re the PDF experience on Kobo. I also have a few PDFs that were intended to be read at that or a similar size, and, yes, Kobo handles them quite well.

But, as you clarified, the real issue is with navigation on PDFs which one needs to pinch and zoom to read. Unfortunately, that accounts for the vast majority of my PDFs. And the experience can be quite frustrating. However, Koreader tends to make the PDF experience much less painful and it is fortunately very easy to install.
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