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Originally Posted by Philippe D.
I've read PDFs on a standard iPad (10"5, right?), and for short documents it's OK except for the LCD screen - I'm mentioning short documents because zooming in is then very convenient, and there are often margins that can be cropped. For longer documents (books), the default ebook app on the iPad is horrible since there is no way to set a default cropping for all pages of a document - having to re-zoom with each new page breaks my concentration when reading.
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Earlier iPads were 9.7"; it's only the most recent iPad Pro that's 10.5". The extra 0.8" makes more difference than one might imagine.
There is no "default ebook app" - you install whatever app you want. For PDFs, the best app by far is GoodReader, which assuredly does remember your crop.
When it comes to the whole eInk vs. LCD for PDFs, I'm very much on the LCD side, personally. I read fiction on an eInk device (Kindle Oasis 2), but PDFs (of which I read an awful lot for my Egyptology degree studies) on my iPad. I find that eInk devices are just too slow. When I'm doing research, I want to be able to have multiple PDF documents open at once, and be able to rapidly flip both through them and between them. I've not come across any eInk device which allow me to do that.