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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.

twodimes

@evan I bought a used Surface 7, replacing my old Surface 4. Really like reading PDFs on them for school using Zotero and DrawboardPDF.

@evan also, I tried to replace the Surface 4 with a relatively high quality Android tablet and HATED it. Maybe I'm just adverse to change but I gave it to the kids and bought this used Surface 7.

@evan I'm reading on it tonight, as it turns out ;)