I also use Magnet to make it easy to divide the screen into thirds or halves when I don't need any references up and want to use things that work better in a more standard landscape orientation. It's fantastic for keeping up any long-text materials I need to reference (docs, PDFs, email, spreadsheets, etc). The stand it comes with has a 90° swivel, allowing you to rotate it from landscape to portrait orientation (the product images on that page show it in that orientation). I use one of these as a second monitor, as I was able to get a surplus one from work for ~$30. And I know which one I choose.Īs others have mentioned, a vertical monitor helps. Overall, it sounds like the same old tradeoff of whether you want to do glamour-magazine-style fancy hijinks with your images, or you want to be able to read the documents on smaller screens and devices.
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Moreover, HTML can do things that are verboten and unthinkable in PDF: having an individual image zoomed in and panned without the rest of the page moving away (most sites stop at screen-size ‘lightboxes’ so far, but I'm thinking of slapping together an extension that would instead do the full zoom-around thing on any page). It's not a problem on desktop, though, and having this issue on a phone is possible only because HTML is reflowable to the screen size in the first place. The most difficult of your criteria is ‘the right size’, mostly because of varying screen dimensions and viewing distances. by floating images to sides and no issues when images are kept like paragraphs of text, in the main flow-the one which is reformatted to the screens of different devices. In fact, I encounter more issues when people are trying to be too clever, e.g. What you list, I see on most decent websites-and these features depend on the author and designer's sense, not on the possibilities of PDF. I was hoping to see an example that is a problem for HTML. You could create print books that mimic the look of the average reflowed EPUB text, but it would look terrible because it doesn't benefit from having an intelligently designed layout. One of the reasons print books are formatted the way they are is because over centuries of tweaking designs people figured out a near optimal way to present a combination of images and text. I think part of the issue is that people subconsciously expect ebooks to look like they would expect print books to look. Can you give an example of a freely available Epub with proper image placement? It has been probably 5 years since I've tried reading one, so maybe they have gotten better. I've experienced the same quality issue with Epubs.
However, from his experience most authors aren't making properly formatted epubs, so using epub isn't an option for him. It might be possible to make properly formatted epubs. He's trying to read a paper and when he reads an epub version it usually looks like shit. The point is he shouldn't have to know or care what the technical issue is. He's talking about it from the perspective of a user of an ebook reading app.
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