20 Jun
2023
20 Jun
'23
10:02 p.m.
On Sat, 4 Mar 2023, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 04:15:33
From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk>
To: coff(a)tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Reading PDFs on a mobile. (Was: Requesting thoughts on
extended regular expressions in grep.)
Hi,
Grant wrote:
Sorry for responding to an old thread got behind on my list-mail
reading, but I wanted to share my $.02.
Someone else mentioned an e-book reader app, and I second that,
mostly...Moon+ Reader on Android is the e-book reader I've been using
for a while and it does a good job with standard e-book formats
as well as PDF files, IF the PDF is a PDF of formatted text. It
even has a mode where it will do a pretty decent job of on-the-fly
converting/reformatting the text of the PDF to something that can
actually be read on a small (phone) screen. However, if the PDF is just
a bunch of 1 image per page wrapped in a PDF container, you're out of
luck and back to zoom/pan around the page.
For most of my digtal book reading these days, I use a Boox e-ink
reader. It runs Android, so, I can use the same e-book reader I used
on my phone. It can even sync where you're at in the book/document via
dropbox and you can move between multiple devices if needed.
If I want to mark-up the PDF, the built-in stuff on the Boox handles
that nicely. If I'm on my phone, I use an app called Xodo.
--
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
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.