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Best I’ve found is to read PDFs on an iPad Pro using an app such as IAnnotate. Instead of scrolling, I display one page at a time in portrait orientation, and t
by eigenvalue 6y ago
Best I’ve found is to read PDFs on an iPad Pro using an app such as IAnnotate. Instead of scrolling, I display one page at a time in portrait orientation, and then you can swipe to flip the pages. Highlighting, underlining, and short notes are quick andeasy. You can keep all the documents in Dropbox for convenient synchronizing of notes.
- aasasd 6y agoA great illustration of how, to read PDFs, you need a letter-size medium (14", usually portrait). Anyone reading PDFs on a regular monitor should ask themselves why they're putting a portrait peg in a landscape hole.
- qplex 6y agoAnyone reading or creating PDFs to begin with should ask why even bother with such a static and outdated format that was made for when it was common to print out documents on paper to read them.
- Veen 6y agoThey can waste a couple of minutes wondering that. Then they can get on with reading the document in the form in which it’s available or creating a document in the form mandated by the publisher or editor.
- FakeRemore 6y agoI'm not sure what the alternative is supposed to be. ePub is reflowable, fine, but it absolutely chokes on placing images. At least with PDF's, I get the book in a form that was designed by a human being to be read by a human being.
- app4soft 6y ago> ePub is reflowable, fine, but it absolutely chokes on placing images. To be honest, ePub is based on HTML5 markup. So, you could place image in right place in your ePub book in same way as you place images on your website.
- FakeRemore 6y ago> So, you could place image in right place in your ePub book in same way as you place images on your website. I've never seen an ePub with images where it looked anywhere as good as the PDF version. It's generally a mess.
- diehunde 6y agoAgree. Also the code snippets are mess sometimes too.
- aasasd 6y agoWhat particular image placing complexity do you need? And why?
- FakeRemore 6y agoI read a fuckton of papers and non-fiction literature with images. ePub simply isn't useable in these cases. If I'm reading something with no images or graphs or anything, then fine. I'll use ePub, otherwise, no.
- aasasd 6y agoAlas this doesn't answer my question in any way.
- FakeRemore 6y agoIt does, actually. No ePub I've seen places the images in between text in a satisfying way. PDF's are designed in a certain layout to account for images and keep that design no matter what I'm viewing it on.
- aasasd 6y agoYour comments are like an old Russian joke that can be very approximately translated as such: — Oranges are better than bananas! — But how? How are they better?! — Better than bananas!
- FakeRemore 6y agoHow is that helpful? Go bother somebody else. You obviously don't read many PDF textbooks or you wouldn't be treating me so rudely.
- Tagbert 6y agoHow are those images supposed to be placed? In what way do ePub documents not match this? Looking for specific complaints, please
- funcDropShadow 6y agoI usually display 2 pages of a pdf in a non-continuous scrolling mode on one large landscape monitor. I.e. it looks like an open book with a left and right side.
- rwoerz 6y agoExcept for the odd pages being on the left in every reader I know. If you print it out double sided, odd pages are on the right. This is particularly annoying if an author places figures and accompanying text on the same double side.
- phaus 6y agoUnless you're on a laptop most people have a monitor large enough to put the PDF reader on one half, effectively putting it into portrait mode. I mostly read technical books, so I'll have a terminal or something open on the other half so I can work through the exercises in the book on the same monitor. When I'm not working at a computer, I do prefer using my Ipad Pro for PDFs.