![]() If you can afford an iPad Pro, surely something as low as $10 won’t be too much. But if you want something more powerful, of course you have to spend some money. If you want it free, there’s Documents by Readdle or PDF Viewer Pro by PSPDFKit. Hmmm.this may be because this article is old, but iPad offers the best pdf experience out there. I am glad to get some feedback on the Kobo. Which is a bit of apples to oranges comparison, I admit. In general, Nook is better than Kindle for PDFs, though The new Kindle 7 does a better job than the old Kindle Fire. The Kindle 7 also does a better job than the old Kindle Fire on this book, so Amazon has improved its PDF visibility- but the Nook Color is better than the Kindle for this book. I have a scanned PDF book which is much more visible on the Nook Color than on the Kindle Fire. I have noticed that cropping a PDF makes no difference in viewing on a Nook SimpleTouch, but it does on the 7″ screens of the Kindle Fire and the Nook Color. Which you cannot do for my Kindles When you cannot change font size, such as for scanned PDFs, reading the PDF is usually better on a Nook Color or Kindle Fire. The bigger the screen, the better for PDFs.Īs commenter Evelyn Bisset notes, Nook SimpleTouch is overall pretty good for PDFs, as you can change font size for most PDFs. My experience is with Nook SimpleTouch, Kindle Fire, Nook Color, and Kindle 7. I am more concerned with simple text reading, not with looking at pictures or photos on PDFs. Having to use a separate computer for videos is better than dealing with all the half-assed PDF apps on the iPad.įiled Under: Apple iPad Tagged With: apps, PDFĪs I have a lot of PDF docs and books, PDF readability is an issue for me. At least it works without crashing constantly and it offers all the features you need to read and navigate PDFs. Unless you want to shell out a bunch of cash for random PDF apps to see if they might work well or not, the Apple iPad makes for a surprisingly awful PDF reader. ![]() It costs $5, which isn’t too bad, but after all the bad luck I’ve had with other iPad PDF apps I’m not going to pay for it without being able to test it first to see if it can handle a 1000 page image-heavy PDF. The iOS PDF app with the best reputation is probably GoodReader, which I forgot about initially because it’s way down the list when you search PDF readers on iTunes. The best one I tried had support for hyperlinks, but after activating the link there’s no back button to take you back to where you were before you have to bookmark the page before leaving in order to get back to it, and unfortunately adding bookmarks causes the app to crash every time.Īt this point I’ve pretty much given up on the iPad being an effective PDF reader. ![]() So I tried a few other free PDF apps and that didn’t go so well either. Most are like $10, and I’m not willing to pay anywhere near that much just to read a couple PDFs, especially without getting to test the app first to see if it has what I need. So I went hunting for other iPad PDF apps. The Adobe PDF Reader app used to be somewhat useful before Abode ruined it with updates to make half the features require a paid subscription. At least it doesn’t crash constantly like iBooks does, but unlike Kindle ebook readers, hyperlinks don’t work and there’s no notes or highlights or dictionary. Next I tried the Kindle app since it’s the only other PDF app I had installed. Apple should be ashamed of such a pitiful effort. Half the time I try to use iBooks it just crashes and boots me out of the app. ![]() Hyperlinks only work about 10% of the time, and there’s no back button, no highlights, no notes. Basically all it can do is search and add bookmarks. An E Ink Kindle has more features than iBooks. It’s mind-blowing just how awful iBooks is for PDFs. I quickly discovered that trying to use the iPad for any kind of hardcore PDF use is a total joke.įirst I tried iBooks since it’s the default PDF app on the iPad. Since I always have E Ink ereaders on-hand, I’ve never really used the iPad for any extensive PDF use, just an occasion reference here and there. ![]() I figured the iPad Air would be the perfect solution for this. But lately I’ve been reading a couple 700-1000 page PDF manuals, and I need to be able to quickly reference things online for clarification and watch YouTube tutorials to better understand certain points, so that leaves out E Ink ereaders. ![]()
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