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Originally Posted by Ubertrout
A law review article is generally 4.5" by 7.75", roughly, per page. However, they're formatted as 8.5" by 11" with large margins.
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If you remove the margins and split the page in half – which is what
soPDF does – this will give you two 4.5" × 3.875" regions.
The 6" readers like the Nook, Kindle, Sony PRS505/600 have a 9cm × 12cm screen, which is 3.54 × 4.72". So if you don't mind holding it sideways, you'll be able to read the articles at about 91% zoom. should be do-able unless you've got bad vision.
This does require some work on your end, since you need to process these PDFs beforehand. (And they can't have DRM.)
The pan/zoom feature of recent Kindles and some others do sound nice, but I personally can't stand the mobi format: it's much much more limited than ePub. (No embedded fonts, no wrapped-around images, no non-flat CSS, etc. Sure, a text-only novel will convert from ePub to mobi just fine, but others won't.)