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Originally Posted by Shohreh
Thanks for the tips. Since I use it while cyclotouring, it needs to be as small as possible.
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The 8″ Kobo Sage does fit in my coat pocket
I do have 4.7″ epub ereader. Same model is currently sold in various brands. The 5″ Sony PRS-350 is a very nice ereader, but only for epub and it's very old now for a gadget. Also only 600 x 800.
Current Kobo (Total Gbyte size)
10.3″ Elipsa 2 1404 x 1872 @227 dpi (32) Only better than Sage if you need same content larger. Less pixels than Sage!
8″ Sage 1440 x 1920 @300 dpi (32)
7" Libra 2 1680 × 1264 @300 dpi (32, Libra original was 8*)
6″ Clara HD 1072 x 1448 @300 dpi (8 *)
6″ Nia 768 x1024 @212 dpi (8 *)
(* Sometimes devices are shipped with larger storage.)
I do have 167 dpi and 300 dpi 6″ Kindle Models. The 6″ PW3 I have and the Oasis (gen2) I gave away are both pretty useless for PDFs. The 9.7″ Kindle DXG is useless because only 150 dpi and too slow for PDFs. Probably my 167 dpi KK3 can do PDFs but it would be pointless, so never tried.
LCD Android Tablets
As these are actually colour and at least 254 grey levels, black and white the effective resolution is higher than same eink as they are 14 greys, black and white (even if colour models which are all lower resolution)
TCL Nxtpaper 11 (10.9″) 2000 x1000 @223 dpi 8000 mAH cell. Optimised for reading and notes with Pen.
Lenovo Yoga 10 (10.1″) 1280 x 800 @149 dpi 10000 mAH cell. Typical shiny.
I looked at iPads in their showroom, in person, but they are far too shiny and far too expensive. Ditto high-end MS Surface or Samsung with Pen.
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Originally Posted by Shohreh
How do you proceed to convert and fix PDF to EPUB? Can it be automated with just a few manual steps?
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Short answer
Really you don't! View PDFs as PDFs.
Long Answer
Either use a big enough screen, or if it's PD or you own copyright then you might try copy/paste/edit/format in LO Writer or MS Word, or if it's a scan, then do OCR if it hasn't one, or extract if it has. Then cycle proof/edit and then epub.
It's usually a lot of work because PDF is an end result for preview for paper print or paper print. I did it once for personal use with a commercial PDF that I also bought on paper as it was a reference work. Never again.
I'd very rarely 'convert' a PDF. Because of how PDFs work even one that's not a scan needs a load of manual editing if copy/pasted or extracted as text.
I have a few hundred old books as PDF scans. Some have later been republished as ebooks and I've either bought or downloaded the PD (e.g. gutenberg.org). I'd read them on a big enough screen.
I have loads of manuals & instruction booklets as PDF. Most work on 8″ and many even on 7″. Almost none are very usable on 6″. Remember the area is proportional to the diagonal squared if the aspect ratio of screen is unchanged.
I also have thousands of service manuals and datasheets and old magazines (most multi-column) and these are only easily used on my desktop screen. The Sage, Elipsa and Android LCD Tablet are not really good enough. So I'm upgrading my Android LCD tablet from a 10.1″ to a 10.9″ model that's 223 dpi instead of 149 dpi and matte screen for mono PDFs and colour documents. Both Android tablets take SD cards up to maybe 1000 G Byte. I have a 256G card. Storage is an issue with Letter/A4/Magazine size PDFs and worse if colour.