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That's true, but not unique to PDF. Any longer document is "basically unreadable on smaller screens".
by jlarocco 8y ago
That's true, but not unique to PDF. Any longer document is "basically unreadable on smaller screens".
- mikeash 8y agoNo way. A Kindle is great for reading books, but text in a typical PDF is too small to read. Reading on a phone is a bit more annoying but totally reasonable with dynamic text layout.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoKoreader[0] can be sideloaded on Kindles, Kobos and other devices, and is good at making PDFs readable on such devices. [0] http://koreader.rocks/ http://koreader.rocks/
- mikeash 8y agoThanks, I’ll have to check this out.
- mwfunk 8y agoSadly PDFs are usually just a series of graphics instructions for drawing stuff (including text) at specific sizes and positions, on a page with a defined size. It's an inherently hostile format for reflowing text, although I think some PDF viewers can do that to an extent. The PDF accessibility spec defines an optional, more DOM-like document structure that a compliant viewer could use to reflow text, but in my experience even the apps that produce that structure don't populate it with enough data to make reflowing reliable or easy to implement. Pretty much every format is way better for reflowing text than PDF (Kindle, ePub, HTML, etc.).
- marvindanig 8y ago+1 also, kindle != web.