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Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by Robotbeat on Monday July 19, 2021 @09:33AM (#27882471)
I had the exact opposite reaction. I’m reading this on an iPhone SE2020, and I MUCH appreciate reading this in pdf form. I didn’t have to pan back and forth or even put the phone in landscape orientation. This is one of the smallest smartphones you can still buy, and the experience of PDF is WAY better than the user-hostile auto-flow text forced down mobile users’ throats.

I was skeptical at first, but I think the author made the point fantastically well.

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Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by cunthorpe on Monday July 19, 2021 @09:43AM (#27882571)
What.

Your browser has a zoom functionality that lets you make the text smaller, essentially replicating the PDF site above. Only the opposite of what you say is correct: I can’t read that PDF’s text without turning my phone into landscape and picking up my glasses.

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Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by wlesieutre on Monday July 19, 2021 @10:05AM (#27882778)
To get equally small text on my desktop I have to turn the font size all the way down to 7. God forbid you have readers with less than stellar eyesight.

I get what they're going for but the PDF is not exactly an accessible reading experience.

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Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by nemetroid on Monday July 19, 2021 @09:42AM (#27882554)
I’m using a 2016 iPhone SE, and it’s largely unreadable without being very up close.
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Re:Deurbanising the Web [pdf] by apotheon on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:06PM (#27886182)
EPUB would beat the shit out of PDF for that.

(EPUB is basically a subset of HTML with client-oriented context.)

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