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What's the best device for reading a long PDF?

Interesting results.

I have to read a lot of PDFs for my courses right now of 50+ pages.

I find reading on a phone too difficult. Even when I let the PDF Reader reflow the document, it's still hard on my eyes.

A laptop is OK but not great. Big screen, but it's kind of far away on my lap.

My Kindle is nice for reading, but it doesn't show preformatted full-page PDFs well.

I'm interested in trying out a tablet or iPad. We'll see.

Thanks for the responses everyone.

To everyone who answered "desktop" or "laptop plugged into a big screen": really? For a 100-page document? That seems really uncomfortable.

To everyone who said "print": really? You'd waste 100 pages of paper for some document you read only once? That seems really irresponsible.

I mean, I appreciate the lols of giving a response that's not one of the poll choices, but c'mon.

@evan You might think about a Kindle Scribe or a 10 or 12 inch Boox eink device.

Jeanne (spellboundblog)

@evan @jesse How much longer do we need to wait for a large, bright-color e-ink device? I see the 7" Boox one, but that is so small - and it looks so un-saturated.

@evan @jesse PS - I do regularly read e-books on my Kobo Clara HD.

@jkramersmyth @evan as far as I can tell, Color eink is still in the 1980s comic books on pulp paper phase.