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Originally Posted by Quoth
Some PDF novels from the IA work, but often you need to reprocess to make the background white and text black.
The Sage (and Kobo generally) now has added per document margin crop (Zoom) that stays as you page which reduces the number of PDFs that need processed.
However mostly I now read IA PDF novels on a 14.25šTCL Nxtpaper 14, which is as kind to the eyes as Sage with front light on, if NOT in epaper mode and sRGB + adjusted colour balance and brightness, using Pocketbook app. It's better than Xodo for PDFs. Sumatra on a Windows Tablet (but I gave those away).
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I find the Sage better than the reMarkable or Elipsa for IA PDF novels. The 9.7″ Kindle DXG was got cheap from Amazon on maybe the final "sale" for PDF and was a total failure. Unusable slow page turns on PDF image files and poor quality (only 150 dpi).
The Sage page turns are fast enough.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
See also https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=144711 and ImageMagik and The GIMP for processing PDFs: Crop, fix brightness / contrast, convert to 14 greys with true black & White (saves storage and improves, background, text and images on eink) etc.
For Novels:
Tesseract or other OCR SW if no decent text layer, then edit & proof in LO Writer, (odt files), final extra save in Docx and then Calibre to epub. |
Wow, thank you for the information and tips! I'm glad to know that the Sage will be fast enough. With k2pdfopt and the ORC to convert novels to ePub, I'm even wondering whether a 6" Clara will do perfectly fine. Food for thought.
Thanks for the mention of Nxtpaper, too. I'm looking for something with no backlight at all (I don't even use the backlight on my Kobo GloHD), but this has led me to consider an RLCD option like Hannsnote 2, or even Daylight Computer's DC-1, as alternatives to a Sage.