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dmaul1114 · 03-01-2010, 12:45 PM

Will vary by the type of PDFs one uses.

For me, many of mine would be fine. But some of the scholarly journal articles I read are A4 sized and have 2 or 3 columns of text that would be too small shrunk to fit in portrait mode (it's already on the small size in the journal/printouts). Landscape mode sucks with multi column documents since you have to keep scrolling up and down on each page.

Also, I don't want to have to crop margins, as my main need for PDFs is to read and mark up research articles--and I scribble a lot of notes in the margins so I need to preserve them.

So I really want a table with an 8.5 x 11" screen so I know all my PDFs will display exactly as they do on printouts so I have no worries.

Oh, and Kindle DX PDF support isn't great. On top of the screen size issues, it doesn't support table of contents, I don't think it supports searching within PDFs etc. All stuff they could fix with firmware I'd think, but they haven't currently.

03-01-2010, 12:45 PM	#2
dmaul1114 Wizard Posts: 2,300 Karma: 1121709 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Amazon Kindle 1	Will vary by the type of PDFs one uses. For me, many of mine would be fine. But some of the scholarly journal articles I read are A4 sized and have 2 or 3 columns of text that would be too small shrunk to fit in portrait mode (it's already on the small size in the journal/printouts). Landscape mode sucks with multi column documents since you have to keep scrolling up and down on each page. Also, I don't want to have to crop margins, as my main need for PDFs is to read and mark up research articles--and I scribble a lot of notes in the margins so I need to preserve them. So I really want a table with an 8.5 x 11" screen so I know all my PDFs will display exactly as they do on printouts so I have no worries. Oh, and Kindle DX PDF support isn't great. On top of the screen size issues, it doesn't support table of contents, I don't think it supports searching within PDFs etc. All stuff they could fix with firmware I'd think, but they haven't currently. Last edited by dmaul1114; 03-01-2010 at 02:28 PM.