Mike, you might try using GoodReader on the iPad to view the PDF. It uses a different PDF rendering engine than iBooks. I believe it is a bit better with large

Mike, you might try using GoodReader on the iPad to view the PDF. It uses a different PDF rendering engine than iBooks. I believe it is a bit better with larger PDFs, but really with PDFs like the Google PDFs which are basically a collection of image files in a PDF container, it's going to bog down a lot of computers, handheld or not.