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I have a Boox Max 3 - which I do occasionally use as a PDF reader (or in a pinch if the PDF uses a lot of color, then I use the tablet portion of my Surface Book 2 as a reader) but I've found I just generally prefer using a smaller eReader w/ the utility of text that can reflow so I can change font sizes on a whim.
My big achieve is mostly of individual articles from periodicals, or out of print books that someone transcribed, or posts/articles from websites during the 90's or early 2000s that people achieved. Nearly all are big single column affairs that were probably once txt, rtf, or straight forward word docs with minimal formatting that someone decided would be more portable saved as a PDF (oh, the ignorance of folks from 20 years ago -- I'd prefer almost all of them as just straight txt files rather than pdf)
A great many of the novels I could probably find as epubs if I took a little time to search for them, or could be acquired new from Google or Amazon in modern formats -- but I honestly usually don't have much problem with just converting them in Calibre -- I turn on heuristics, I make sure that I'm not removing empty lines between paragraphs, and then I use Search/Replace during conversion to remove artifacts like page numbers, or watermarks. Usually only takes about a minute or two of my time per.
For PDFs with a lot of special formatting, images, multiple columns, etc -- yeah, I usually either load that directly on my Boox Max, or depending on how large the font is, sometimes I'll crop the margins out to make it easier on the eyes.
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