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Old 03-05-2015, 12:38 PM   #1
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Hi. I have a nook glowlight but it's too small to read pdfs. Ex: journals or professional articles have 2 columns, seems with nook you either see both columns at once (to small) or pretty much just a paragraph and it omits any image the article may have.
The only illuminated e ink ereaders I've seen are 6 in!

can anyone tell me if there are some that are larger than that?

Thanks
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Old 03-05-2015, 12:51 PM   #2
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Hi. I have a nook glowlight but it's too small to read pdfs. Ex: journals or professional articles have 2 columns, seems with nook you either see both columns at once (to small) or pretty much just a paragraph and it omits any image the article may have.
The only illuminated e ink ereaders I've seen are 6 in!

can anyone tell me if there are some that are larger than that?

Thanks
The 8" Pocketbook InkPad 840. It is great for text-based PDFs, even though in the current software version there is an area at the bottom of the page that is reserved for displaying page numbers, which you cannot disable, so you are effectively left with 7.5 inches. For graphic PDFs (scanned paper books, graphic novels etc.) it is totally unusable, it breaks down when the file has more than a few MB. Backlight is good, contrast is not state of the art but the high resolution (1200 x 1600, 250dpi) mostly makes up for it.
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Old 03-05-2015, 01:05 PM   #3
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You're a lot more likely to get help if you ask in the right place. Moved to the "Which one should I buy?" forum.
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For graphic PDFs (scanned paper books, graphic novels etc.) it is totally unusable, it breaks down when the file has more than a few MB.
I put mupdfview on mine, and it's much quicker than the default AdobeViewer application for scanned PDF files. I know mupdfview works with firmware version 4.4. I'm not sure if it works with the latest 5.5 version.
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Hi. I have a nook glowlight but it's too small to read pdfs. Ex: journals or professional articles have 2 columns, seems with nook you either see both columns at once (to small) or pretty much just a paragraph and it omits any image the article may have.
The only illuminated e ink ereaders I've seen are 6 in!

can anyone tell me if there are some that are larger than that?

Thanks
You should use 2-column mode if there is one or root your reader and install better pdf viewer with 2-column mode or you can use k2pdfopt's 2-column mode to crop pdf beforehand on PC or its reflow mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...cdHuI5hw#t=264

http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/
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