[COFF] Re: Reading PDFs on a mobile. (Was: Requesting thoughts on extended regular expressions in grep.)

[Tomasz Rola <rtomek@ceti.pl>]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 10:15:33AM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Grant wrote:
> > Even inventorying and keeping track of the books can be time
> > consuming.  --  Thankfully I took some time to do exactly that and
> > have access to that information on the super computer in my pocket.
> 
> I seek recommendations for an Android app to comfortably read PDFs on a
> mobile phone's screen.  They were intended to be printed as a book.  In
> particular, once I've zoomed and panned to get the interesting part of a
> page as large as possible, swiping between pages should persist that
> view.  An extra point for allowing odd and even pages to use different
> panning.

My own recommendation for this is to get a dedicated ebook reader. It
will feel a bit clumsy to have both a cretinphone and another thing
with you, but at least the thing is doing the job. At least, mine
keeps cropping across pages. Also, the e-ink/epaper display of ebook
reader is not supposed to screw your eyes and/or circadian rhythms
(not that I know anything specific, but I find it very strange that
people shine blue light into their eyes for extended periods of time
and do not even quietly protest - well, perhaps it is akin to what
goes between human and a dog, they become alike to each other, now,
when a human has cretinphone...).

Or, if it just one pdf to read, then you should be fine reading it on
bigger screen.

HTH

-- 
Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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