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R0B_IX · 12-29-2009, 10:00 PM

I've recently started converting all of my textbook style PDFs to LRF and have been very pleased with the results (as far as reading goes). In a PDF, I was never able to get rid of the entire margin (probably my own fault), which resulted in a loss of ~1 cm around each side of the page. On a 6" screen, that's a huge loss. With the PDF to LRF converter (I found mentions of it on this forum), the pages are automatically resized to fit the width of my device and extended to multiple pages if necessary.

Sadly, this process removes my ability to highlight passages, so I may go back to fixing the margins eventually, but for now I am very happy with the readability of the books, even in portrait mode.

(As a side note, PDF reflow always seems to mess up equations in my books, so the utility of that feature is minimal there. As Grooks said, however, if you are dealing with an all text document, it might work well for you.)

12-29-2009, 10:00 PM	#3
R0B_IX Enthusiast Posts: 32 Karma: 48 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-300	I've recently started converting all of my textbook style PDFs to LRF and have been very pleased with the results (as far as reading goes). In a PDF, I was never able to get rid of the entire margin (probably my own fault), which resulted in a loss of ~1 cm around each side of the page. On a 6" screen, that's a huge loss. With the PDF to LRF converter (I found mentions of it on this forum), the pages are automatically resized to fit the width of my device and extended to multiple pages if necessary. Sadly, this process removes my ability to highlight passages, so I may go back to fixing the margins eventually, but for now I am very happy with the readability of the books, even in portrait mode. (As a side note, PDF reflow always seems to mess up equations in my books, so the utility of that feature is minimal there. As Grooks said, however, if you are dealing with an all text document, it might work well for you.) Last edited by R0B_IX; 12-30-2009 at 08:55 AM.