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Old 02-18-2010, 02:19 PM   #88
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I'm a bit puzzled. What makes you feel 9.7" is too small for technical PDFs? I'm actually planning to use the iPad for A4/letter-sized (arXiv) PDFs. I was under the impression this would work well (in particular with the iPad display in landscape mode).

Do I overlook something?
Landscape mode probably would be ok, I just don't like the scrolling--especially for articles with multiple columns of text rather than one column. But it certainly could work if you're just reading and not need to highlight and scribble notes etc. as the scrolling is less annoying in that case.

I'd rather have something with an A4 screen that can simply display the document exactly as it looks when I print it out to read and mark up currently.

Convenience is my main concern. Printouts work fine for me, so I'm in no rush to make the switch to a tablet type device until I find one that does exactly what I want it to do.

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