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Everyone 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
by clint 4y ago
Everyone 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.