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Wait... you can't read PDF's? This seems like insanity to me? Why would they not enable such a basic and fundamental feature?
by Aromasin 4y ago
Wait... you can't read PDF's? This seems like insanity to me? Why would they not enable such a basic and fundamental feature?
- jljljl 4y agoYou can, but it's a very unpleasant experience on the Kindle's small screen. The DX was much better at this because it could comfortably display a full page of a PDF without needing to scroll
- datalopers 4y agoIt’s about as pleasant as reading a pdf on a phone. Yes, supports it, but you’re either constantly panning your viewframe or have superhuman vision.
- Marazan 4y agoI'd actually prefer reading a PDF on a phone over a standard sized kindle. All I ask for is a A4 sized e-reader that doesn't cost five million pounds to buy.
- clint 4y agoEveryone thinks they want to read a PDF on something that isn't a desktop or an A4 sheet of paper, and then they try it and realize that there are basically no PDFs that are laid-out in a way that could be feasibly consumed on such a device. In addition to that, writing heuristics to try and make it possible to unify the experience of reading any arbitrary PDF is such a quagmire/shitshow that basically no one is willing to step up and try to make it possible.
- zwaps 4y agoI have read a gazillion of pages of PDFs on my Remarkable over the years, fwiw
- hboon 4y agoDo you sometimes encounter text that is too small? If so, do you fix it?
- ThrowawayR2 4y agoAutomatic text reflow for PDFs on e-readers have worked just fine as far back as the Sony PRS-500 from the late '00s. It wasn't anything resembling fast but it was adequate.
- themadturk 4y agoThe Kindle is perfectly capable of letting you view PDFs. Many humans are not perfectly capable of reading material laid out for a letter/A4 sized sheet of paper on a six-inch screen. Yes, there are ways around it, but not everyone finds them satisfactory.