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Originally Posted by rem736
i think that most of the negative comments about the 6" kindles and pdfs are in the department of original pdf documents in A4 and letter size. these documents have huge margins (usually 1") and when reduced to fit the 6" kindles, looks way to small. the majority of other complaints have to do with graphics (such as in technical books to show a screen shot of a program). when reduced to this size, the graphics are not much help at all. if the original (technical) book was sized as a paperback book it shouldn't be a problem. but such books are never to be found. when was the last time you found a book on microsoft office programs, for example, that are paperback sized?
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Using k2pdfopt app beforehand for 6" readers will usually quickly and easily solve the problem of A5 or other smaller than A4 pdf books with big margins.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...5&postcount=14
example of microsoft office bible 188 x 236 mm (7.4 x 9.3 inch) pdf page (text proper width without margins is 5.2 inch), croped with only a few clicks in k2pdfopt GUI, for 6" kindles(1-5) landscape size (120 x 90 mm or 4.7 x 3.5 inch), without reflow and then with reflow.
As we can see k2pdfopt not only automatically crops the white margins completely but also reduces those bigger darker frames to be the same width as other part of text so that text proper is of bigger size i.e. fits the screen completely.
It also makes the page turning faster for slower e-readers with poor pdf capabilities, because e-reader doesn't have to calculate croppings, landscape mode, reflows etc. itself, but only has to show already perfectly tailored page for its screen size and resolution.