Hi cpilson. Welcome to MR!
Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to help with your questions about reading PDFs. So far, I'm mostly reading classics that I've downloaded from MR
If no one answers your question here in "Introduce Yourself", you might try browse around or post again in the PDF forum (
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=184) or one of the device-specific forums.