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Originally Posted by HarryT
Most people who have eye-strain issues with LCD screens do, I suspect, have the screen brightness set far too high.
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Thank you for mentioning this important nuance which I have come to realize only rather recently.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's not reading multi-page PDFs that the issue. My usage, as is typical for academic reading, involves having multiple documents open at the same time (or looking at different parts of the same document) and being able to rapidly flip between them. Unfortunately, all the eInk devices I've used are (reasonably enough) targetted primarily at fiction readers. They're great for reading one book from start to finish, but not good at all for handling multiple documents open at the same time. The Goodreader app on the iPad has a "tabbed" interface which makes it extremely easy to rapidly flip from one document to another.
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Having multiple documents open is very useful. But my personal view based on my user profile is that I do not need that very often because putting citations and text passages next to one another and ordering & assembling them according to keywords, categories and headings in outlines/structure I do with my reference management program on the desktop-PC.
Your point is still very valid, above all, because the functionality of pdf apps in IPads is excellent in many directions, potentially making reference management programs on other devices redundant and opening the door for managing all of your knowledge items on one device: the IPad.