Your favorite PDF reader (Ebook)

odalanizi · 01-05-09, 05:34 AM

I've read a lot of posts on this site and others. And tried many PDF readers, but quite frankly I'm shocked and disappointed at the lack of a good go-to pdf reader.

The best one I've come across so far is the new LE 2.5 for Diamond, however that one I don't like because
A) It's impossible to get out of full-screen
B) Tap up or down doesn't go turn the page down/up fully
C) Auto-scroll (I LOVE this feature)

Does anyone know of a PDF reader that does all this? If not, then any reader will do ... even if I have to convert! I've got 500 MB worth of books I wanna start reading, and a crappy PDF reader is not helping.

CodeBubba · 01-05-09, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by odalanizi

I've read a lot of posts on this site and others. And tried many PDF readers, but quite frankly I'm shocked and disappointed at the lack of a good go-to pdf reader.

The best one I've come across so far is the new LE 2.5 for Diamond, however that one I don't like because
A) It's impossible to get out of full-screen
B) Tap up or down doesn't go turn the page down/up fully
C) Auto-scroll (I LOVE this feature)

Does anyone know of a PDF reader that does all this? If not, then any reader will do ... even if I have to convert! I've got 500 MB worth of books I wanna start reading, and a crappy PDF reader is not helping.

Have you tried the Adobe Reader for your PPC? It seems to work fine as far as I've noticed. Still ... PDF reading on a pocket device (no matter what kind of reader you have) is not going to be as good as on a full-sized screen.

-CB :D

kcallahan · 01-05-09, 01:45 PM

I agree with CB. None of them are going to be perfect and the screen is too small to get a lot of readable text on the screen at one time. Part of my job is to review PDF files. Most of which are very large (400 or more page) documents. I have reviewed some on my AX. But, only when I had to. Like waiting in the Drs./Dentist office. Acrbat reader allows me to scroll and make the text size to my desires. I can also use the stylus to move around in the document.

Julie · 01-05-09, 04:00 PM

I prefer Adobe PDF Reader for Pocket PC over Foxit or PocketXpdf. You can see an article I wrote comparing these three PDF readers here.

Nonetheless, PDF files are not ideally suited for electronic books and I won't waste my money buying books in this format. I prefer Mobipocket for the electronic books I purchase to read on my pocket pc or my Cybook Gen3 eInk ebook reader.

mostlylisten · 01-05-09, 06:32 PM

I agree with Julie if you have a number of books mobipocket is excellent. If you want even more books theres a site called manybooks.net which gives you thousands of books to download straight to your axim for free. (Books were written before 1930 something or other though).

KimChee · 01-05-09, 06:56 PM

Another vote for mobibook, you have to convert them on your desktop first though. Also has good rss feeds you can browse. I never cared much for adobe reader I have version 2.1.

CodeBubba · 01-06-09, 10:01 AM

I've also found that the Microsoft Reader for PPC works fine, too. Maybe not feature-rich but definitely adequate...