Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs?

Re:Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs? by immy on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:37PM (#23535437)

Speaking from friends opinions, reMarkable tablet is the way to go for folx often working with PDFs. Great annotation and highlighting. E-ink display. https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable

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Re:Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs? by Libbum on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @09:53AM (#23539124)

I wouldn't recommend this. PDF support is horrible, particularly if you have a two column layout file. You cannot correctly zoom in far enough in most cases - in the sense that zoom is possible, just absolutely impractical. Without that, you generally need a magnifying glass to read the text on the display.

Very nice hardware, just awful software.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs? by diehunde on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @06:36PM (#23557625)

Aren't most books single column layout though? If I have to read a paper I can use a tool such as k2pdfopt[1] and read it on my Kindle.

[1] https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/

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Re:Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs? by Libbum on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:27PM (#23567605)

I mostly read scientific papers. Quite a good number of them are two column. Haven't come across k2pdfopt before - I'll check it out, thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs? by reinhardt1053 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:57PM (#23541346)

Are you talking about the new version or the old one?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs? by Libbum on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @02:05PM (#23542130)

Version 1. But as I say, the hardware is good. Version 2 will have even better hardware specs, but the operating system I suspect will be the same.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs? by microbass on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @03:43AM (#23536832)

Is there any way to get files onto it, besides their cloud service?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs? by fsflover on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:28AM (#23537002)

Install GNU/Linux on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23205489

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