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PDF is a pain to read on the majority of mobile devices. Even Kindle. Its lack of reflowing makes it impossible to adapt to various smaller screen sizes and efficiently use screen space and change text size. It's becoming a real pain point.


PDF is pain to read anywhere, including wide screen desktop monitors.


Haha, true, though at least on my laptop I can full-screen it zoom the content to the screen edges, and invert the colors to get dark bg/light text. It's at least serviceable that way. Nothing like it (or at least that easy) on Kindle, Android, etc. that I know of.


There are some PDF readers on Android that are much better than stock. "Night Mode" on ezPDF Reader (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=udk.android.re...) might do what you want.


I can totally vouch for nightmode on ezPDF. The only place it borks out is around equation boxes which, I think are images anyway.


I don't find PDFs to be a problem on an iPad unless the PDF publisher has done something wacky (nonstandard paper sizes is a big one).


Well on my low DPI 1680x1050 (16:10) 22" monitor I can fullscreen PDFs and two pages are visible in one go. It's readable.




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