Best reader for PDFs? (compared to the old Sonys)

[ijijijij]

I bought my first e-book reader over 10 years ago, the Sony PRS-505. It still works fine, but I decided to buy a new one for Christmas. I got the NOOK Glowlight 3 because I like having physical buttons.

Unfortunately, I just realized today that the NOOK can't enlarge the text size for pdf files! My old Sony handles pdfs beautifully.

So now I'm thinking about getting a new one. For those of you who have experience with the Sony readers, do any of the other brands handle pdfs in the same way? Thanks!

[ItalianUruguayan]

Both Kobos and Kindles handle pdfs awfully. However, you can easily install koreader on both, which is a nice alternative reader that adapts the text of pds to fill the screen like if they were epub files and makes them a pleasure to read.

[ijijijij]

Thank you ItalianUruguayan. I will look into Koreader.

I still can't believe my 10-year old Sony handles pdfs better than these newer devices.

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by ijijijij

Thank you ItalianUruguayan. I will look into Koreader.

I still can't believe my 10-year old Sony handles pdfs better than these newer devices.

I've discovered (and am still discovering) that Sonys were pretty impressive, especially when used in conjunction with Calibre.

[Marinolino]

Originally Posted by rcentros

I've discovered (and am still discovering) that Sonys were pretty impressive, especially when used in conjunction with Calibre.

In my case it was especially useful in conjunction with k2pdfopt (on my PC), because 70 % of my pdfs are mostly A5 books with the text width 12 cm or lower i.e. as 6" reader in landscape, so, I would just easily crop the white margins simultaneously cutting the pages into two or three screens per page using k2pdfopt' landscape mode, usually retaining ocr for the dictionary usage and highlighting.

Although we could also pinch-zoom on every page using prs-t1' zooming capability or using fit-to-landscape mode with auto-cropping, the page flipping/scrolling/reading was a bit slower & more demanding in that case and more importantly, I would need to leave the zoomed view for the normal view whenever I needed to draw on the pdf with the pen, highlight the text or add notes (virtual keyboard or pen), whereas with cropped pdf (using k2pdfopt) it was not necessary and all went as smooth as possible for e-ink readers of yore, flipping the pages with buttons or the screen taps/swipes with finger/pen.

I rarely used prt-s1' reflow mode for pdfs (i.e. its ocr-ed text in the background for ocr-ed scans) using different text size, because I always prefer to have 100 % text accuracy and page layout of an original pdf image, which is impossible for ocr-ed text, especially scientific ones with a lot of formulas and special characters.

My Sony PRS-T1 is still alive, waiting for the sunny days.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ItalianUruguayan

Both Kobos and Kindles handle pdfs awfully. However, you can easily install koreader on both, which is a nice alternative reader that adapts the text of pds to fill the screen like if they were epub files and makes them a pleasure to read.

Most eInk Readers are not good for PDF. If you really want eInk and PDF, you'll be needing to get a 13.3" Sony or Onyx Boox Max 2.

Personally, I don't think they are worth the money. I'd prefer to go for an iPad.