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I bought the original version but found that some PDF files absolutely destroyed it. Not massive files where each page is a scanned picture, just regular PDFs f
by floren 7y ago
I bought the original version but found that some PDF files absolutely destroyed it. Not massive files where each page is a scanned picture, just regular PDFs from academic journals. I'd open one, it would spend 20+ seconds displaying the "working" spinner, then often as not it would reboot. Had to return it.
I was also pretty shocked that there was no way to get a list of all annotations you've added to a given PDF; I really wanted a way to read through a book making notes as I went, then get an overview of where I'd made notes. Even a way to bookmark a given page would have been useful.
Fix those two issues and it would have been a great device for me; the page size was juuuust big enough to display pretty much any book at a readable size.
- carlosdp 7y agoI have a remarkable and use it for reading academic paper PDFs all the time. The software has gotten far better over time.
- floren 7y agoI'm very glad it's working well for you, but the software as of January 2020 was unable to properly read PDFs from a particular journal... it may have been Science.
- jonahbenton 7y agoThere might be something to do here to clean those up and make them more ergonomic for the device. I have de-DRMed most of my kindle books and turned them into PDFs, even some thousand page monsters with graphs and images, etc, and so far all work well on the device. There are a bunch of open source PDF utilities that may be able to help if desired. Cheers.