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0 pointsclint3y ago0 comments

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.

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zwaps3y ago· 1 in thread

I have read a gazillion of pages of PDFs on my Remarkable over the years, fwiw

hboon3y ago

Do you sometimes encounter text that is too small? If so, do you fix it?

ThrowawayR23y ago

Automatic 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.

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