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Landscape mode for pdf files? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi RM-folks,

I'm a PhD student reading a lot of academic journals looking to buy an e-ink device for this purpose without going financially broke (looking at you, A4-sized tablets).

Is it possible yet to rotate any pdf into landscape mode? If so, does anyone have experience to share regarding reading and annotating journals?

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I bought my first e-ink tablet, a remarkable, to read academic PDFs and was disappointed by the software and by the low contrast of the screen. (I fell in love with the rM as a digital notepad, something I didn’t know I wanted until I had one, but that’s another story.)

Later I got a ten inch Boox and it’s an amazing PDF reader. It has a frontlight so the contrast is boosted, and the “article mode” (google Boox article mode for a short video) makes multicolumn PDFs so easy to read. (Unicolumn still need to be read in landscape mode.). I wouldn’t trade it for a larger model because the article mode is so good and I like the portability and handling of the ten inch model.