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Old 11-10-2014, 10:49 AM   #1
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reading pdf magazines on an e-reader.. are some better then others?
i have tried reading pdf magazines on a kobo aura and its pretty poor and i know they are not made for magazines as such but do some have better peformance than others? e.g. kindle paperwhite...
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Old 11-10-2014, 03:01 PM   #2
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Any 6" reader is not going to be very good for reading pdf files that are designed with a larger page size. There is a lot of scrolling and zooming involved. Also, you can't change the font size or highlight, etc.
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There is a popular third-party PDF reader for Kindle and Kobo, called KOReader, which is widely agreed to do a lot better job than the builtin PDF renderers. When using that, there is little difference between the actual reading devices, I think.

Stick with the Kobo you already have.
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Paper books are not normally A4 size!
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Any 6" reader is not going to be very good for reading pdf files that are designed with a larger page size. There is a lot of scrolling and zooming involved. Also, you can't change the font size or highlight, etc.
I agree with Susan Cassidy. Paper books are not normally A4 size (apart from coffee table editions of volumes bought to entertain and impress visitors. An ereader's strength is that it is light weight: its weakness is that is cannot render large page formats (e.g. A4) adequately. For PDF files you need a 10 inch tablet. I have sometimes connected my PC to the TV and that gives an even better image of PDF files and if you use a remote controlled mouse, you can sit in your armchair and read your PDF file on the big screen in comfort!
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KOReader will resize your PDFs. So will k2pdfopt.
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I agree with Susan Cassidy. Paper books are not normally A4 size (apart from coffee table editions of volumes bought to entertain and impress visitors. An ereader's strength is that it is light weight: its weakness is that is cannot render large page formats (e.g. A4) adequately. For PDF files you need a 10 inch tablet. I have sometimes connected my PC to the TV and that gives an even better image of PDF files and if you use a remote controlled mouse, you can sit in your armchair and read your PDF file on the big screen in comfort!
A4 two-column or multi-column pdfs pose no problem though.

I guess, new 8" eink readers with light and high resolution should be good enough even for A4 documents (in landscape, margins cropped) for people with normal vision or nearsighted.

Also 8" should be large enough for the whole A5 pdf page to be showed in portraite (again for people with normal vision).

Reading A4 pdf color magazines should also be possible but probably not as a great experience.
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I prefer to use a large screen tablet (in my case, a nine-inch screen Nook HD+) for magazines, not only because of the formatting but also because most have color photos and illustrations.

I reserve my e-ink reader for reading regular b&w books and use the tablet for magazines, PDF docs, graphic novels, etc.
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