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wherahiko · 07-29-2025, 09:54 PM

I'm wondering if some of you who have (or had) a Sage can comment on what it's like for reading PDFs? The two things I'm most interested in are contrast and speed.

I'm not planning to read born-digital documents designed for A4/Letter size (the 8" screen would be too small for my eyes), but, rather, scanned books from Internet Archive, such as these:

https://archive.org/details/laviespi...e/n11/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/lasainte...e/156/mode/2up

(In many cases, on Internet Archive, the .epub versions are full of OCR errors and basically unusable.)

I previously had a 1st-gen Onyx Boox Note—which was great for this purpose until the battery gave out—but, in comparison to a Kobo, it had the ability to make text bolder for reading (and speed wasn't an issue). I have tried loading PDFs onto my GloHD just to test these aspects, but text is often not very bold, and the page turns are ... oh so slow!

I welcome your thoughts on this.

07-29-2025, 09:54 PM	#1
wherahiko Connoisseur Posts: 68 Karma: 290 Join Date: May 2018 Device: Kobo Glo HD, Kindle PW 3	Kobo Sage for PDF reading I'm wondering if some of you who have (or had) a Sage can comment on what it's like for reading PDFs? The two things I'm most interested in are contrast and speed. I'm not planning to read born-digital documents designed for A4/Letter size (the 8" screen would be too small for my eyes), but, rather, scanned books from Internet Archive, such as these: https://archive.org/details/laviespi...e/n11/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/lasainte...e/156/mode/2up (In many cases, on Internet Archive, the .epub versions are full of OCR errors and basically unusable.) I previously had a 1st-gen Onyx Boox Note—which was great for this purpose until the battery gave out—but, in comparison to a Kobo, it had the ability to make text bolder for reading (and speed wasn't an issue). I have tried loading PDFs onto my GloHD just to test these aspects, but text is often not very bold, and the page turns are ... oh so slow! I welcome your thoughts on this.