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Re: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2025 3:33 pm
by rotting bones
Raphael wrote: ↑Sun May 11, 2025 2:36 pm
Which makes me wonder: how does everyone else manage this? Are all other people, perhaps, by now, using smartphone apps that
somehow present pdf files on smartphones in reasonably readable ways, about which I only haven't heard anything yet because I'm so out of touch?
Have you tried ReadEra? It's pretty much the equivalent of the VLC app for ebooks. I've been using it on 3 generations of phones by now.
On the top left menu, if you choose Books & Documents, it scans the phone for ebooks. Books that were opened at least once are shown under Reading Now. It remembers your last read location. When a document is open, you can tap the document to open the bottom bar. There, you can choose a fixed orientation.
Re: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2025 3:35 pm
by Raphael
rotting bones wrote: ↑Mon May 19, 2025 3:33 pm
Have you tried ReadEra? It's pretty much the equivalent of the VLC app for ebooks. I've been using it on 3 generations of phones by now.
On the top left menu, if you choose Books & Documents, it scans the phone for ebooks. Books that were opened at least once are shown under Reading Now. It remembers your last read location. When a document is open, you can tap the document to open the bottom bar. There, you can choose a fixed orientation.
Thank you! I've used it for epubs for a while now, but I haven't used it for pdfs yet. Perhaps I should.
Re: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2025 4:12 pm
by rotting bones
Raphael wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 4:19 pm
I'd say the problem with html is that it requires most graphics and illustrations to be in their own separate files, which makes transporting an illustrated document as a whole more complicated than necessary.
DJVU was superior to PDF in every way.
Re: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2025 7:47 pm
by Torco
I like readera. i didn't know it was popular.
choosing pdf over open file formats was the canonical event. it was all downhill from there,