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Old 12-19-2014, 04:12 AM   #1
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Screenplays on Kindle Voyage
Has anyone tried reading a screenplay on the Kindle Voyage? On previous Kindles the text size was okay, but the low-res made reading difficult. Is it any different on the Voyage?

I'm talking about this sort of thing:
https://www.foxscreenings.com/GoneGi...ing_Script.pdf
http://twcguilds.com/assets/downloads/ScreenplayTIG.pdf

If someone could load one up and take a photo, or just comment on readability, I'd be eternally grateful.

Thanks.
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Old 12-19-2014, 04:14 AM   #2
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Reading a PDF that's formatted for an A4/Letter page on a 6" screen is never going to work well; that's not the purpose that PDF was designed for.

Nothing wrong with the content - just the delivery medium.
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Old 12-19-2014, 07:41 AM   #3
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With PDF's like this I found it easier to read when I turned the kindle into Landscape mode.
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Old 12-19-2014, 08:51 AM   #4
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Reading a PDF that's formatted for an A4/Letter page on a 6" screen is never going to work well; that's not the purpose that PDF was designed for.

Nothing wrong with the content - just the delivery medium.
Sure. I get that. But I'm just wondering how not well it works. Screenplays are fine on my Nexus 7, for example.
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With PDF's like this I found it easier to read when I turned the kindle into Landscape mode.
How legible are they on the Voyage?
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Has anyone tried reading a screenplay on the Kindle Voyage? On previous Kindles the text size was okay, but the low-res made reading difficult. Is it any different on the Voyage?

I'm talking about this sort of thing:
https://www.foxscreenings.com/GoneGi...ing_Script.pdf
http://twcguilds.com/assets/downloads/ScreenplayTIG.pdf
Quite a few folks at Done Deal Pro (where I sometimes post) who read screenplays on E-Ink devices, use (or used) Kindle DXs. They've probably mostly gone to tablets by now, however.
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Old 12-19-2014, 09:29 AM   #7
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I'#m loading it on now to show you
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Old 12-19-2014, 09:42 AM   #9
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Perfectly readable in my opinion:-

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...2014.38.41.jpg


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...2014.39.30.jpg

Especially in landscape mode
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Half-pages in landscape.
Readability is far better.
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Has anyone tried reading a screenplay on the Kindle Voyage?
Thanks.
If you can jailbreak your firmware and have a Touch or greater, KoReader has a MUCH better pdf reader than Amazon's native reader. In fact, KoReader is pretty much superior for all ebook types.

It's kind of absurd that volunteers creating open-source software can create a better product than the clowns that Amazon hires, but that's the case.
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