garabik comments on Open thread for December 24-31, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: garabik 27 December 2013 11:20:24AM 1 point [-]

That's exactly why I bought a tablet with 8" 4:3 display. It's quite good for reading A4 sized PDF - a bit to the smallish side in portrait mode, but still very readable. And the rotate and zoom can more than compensate.

I won't bother you with naming the model - it was a cheap Chinese one, which I selected as a compromise of screen size (7" 16:9 is too narrow), weight (10" ones are heavy as hell) and battery life (10h of use).

Comment author: hyporational 03 January 2014 03:25:17PM 0 points [-]

If the OS is android, there's this neat app called Repligo reader that can intelligently reflow the text of pdf files so that you don't have to hassle with zooming.