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Old 07-30-2019, 08:50 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by dwig View Post
No matter what you get you will encounter a good number of PDFs that "don't fit". Your choice of reading software is more important than the shape of the device's screen. You need to find an application that pads the margins or the overall app UI in a pleasant manner when the document isn't a good fit for the screen. This is a mix of personal taste and trial-and-terror.

If you are reading PDFs that were produced from either the original design layout programs used for the print versions or from scans of print versions you will likely find that a squarer 3:4 fits PDFs of books designed for large academic textbook and US magazine formats. A 2:3 display will fit files designed for, or scanned from, paperback books and European or Asian magazines. Also, American (North and South) business documents are closer to the 3:4 aspect ratio which other areas use A4 documents which fit 2:3 a bit better.
By reading software, do you mean apps like Goodreader, Calibre, etc?
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