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Originally Posted by mdmorrissey
Thanks for educating me on this. Makes sense. But a larger screen could handle the PDFs, couldn't it? I wouldn't mind using a larger screen reader if it was light enough and worked as well as the PDF readers on my computers.
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To display an A4 formatted document in 1:1 scale on an e-book reader you would need 14.5 inch screen.
There is no such e-ink reader today.
There are a few with 9.7 or 10 inch screens and those are good (so I was told) for displaying pdf files formatted for A4 or Letter size. Especially if you turn the reader to landscape and view only the top or bottom half of pdf page. You can also set the reading application to crop margins on the document, making it even more readable.
If you read my PocketBook reviews, you will see that what makes this little device very special is the possibility to set many, many various options.
With FBReader on my PocketBook I can set:
- font (I mean typeface)
- size of font (in very fine steps of one point)
- line spacing
- size of margins
- justification
- hyphenation
- other, more obscure formatting options
If you ask 10 people here what combinations of the above they like and prefer you will get 12 different answers. There are people that prefer wide margins, because it resembles a real printed book, other people (including myself) prefer really small margins, because we want to use the entire (already quite small) screen for displaying text and have as few pageturns as possible. It is the same with justification, and with fonts, the situation is completely hopeless. I, for example, can't stand Garamond font, while other people like it very much.
If I have book in FB2, TXT, RTF, HTML, PRC, CHM, EPUB, DOC, TCR, or FB2.ZIP, I can set all options and have the e-book formatted exactly how I want it at the moment (*).
If you provide the book in pdf, I am stuck with your specific format. I know, in a paper book I can't change the format, but one of reasons I prefer to read e-books is that I *can* change the format.
(*) Sometimes I feel I want a different font, or perhaps the light is no good and I want to bump up the font size.