Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with?

Re:Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with? by Rainymood on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @02:45AM (#13587822)

Laptop, but in all honest I am still waiting eagerly for a good and fast enough e-ink second monitor, reading on a Kindle is such an improvement over a regular screen but the sluggishness is horrible ...

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Re:Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with? by mdibaiee on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @02:58AM (#13587865)

I have a Kindle but I would never use it to read academic papers. Reading a PDF on Kindle is a real pain as

1. The screen size is too small for a readable, fit-to-screen experience

2. Scrolling is too sluggish to even try, you don't want to scroll horizontally and vertically on a PDF which is zoomed a few levels

Currently, laptop works much better I'd say.

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Re:Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with? by Rainymood on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @05:32AM (#13588439)

There are some tools which can turn an academic pdf (i.e. double column, images) into a nicely formatted epub/mobi file, look into it. It makes it somewhat bearable.

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Re:Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with? by ralfk on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @08:11AM (#13589090)

can you recommend one in particular?

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Re:Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with? by parmegv on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @08:22AM (#13589131)

I used to use K2pdfopt, http://willus.com/k2pdfopt/

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Re:Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with? by ralfk on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:14AM (#13596937)

Thanks, that looks awesome!

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