Comments on: You can read PDFs on your iPhone, and read them well, says Palm-mac

By: ilya s

ilya s — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:59:22 +0000

The latest version of Good Reader reflows text to fit iPhone’s screen, and this works very well.

By: Robinson

Robinson — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:19:51 +0000

Does Good Read reflow text when one resizes the display? Or do you have to scroll back and forth to read the text that’s now off the screen?

Most PDFs I’ve brought over are too tiny to read comfortably.

Is there any app that will reflow PDFs?? For example, what does Air Sharing do?

Docs2Go reflows .doc and .docx wonderfully, but not PDFs!

By: Stephen Ward

Stephen Ward — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:41:44 +0000

I use the Air Sharing app (also $4.99) as a file store and document reader, and I’ve never had any difficulty reading PDFs (among other things) with it. Anything particularly special about GoodReader? There seem to be a lot of competing apps with similar features.

Admittedly, I haven’t tried any truly large PDF files on my phone. GoodReader claims a real edge there.

I wouldn’t choose any of these as a way to read PDF ebooks; the usability (on such a small screen) just isn’t as good as readers for reflowable formats like epub and mobi.

By: Paul Biba

Paul Biba — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:39:07 +0000

All I can say is Wow! I used the iPhone Explorer app to move over a PDF book and it worked just fine. I opened the book and it is very easy to read it in the landscape mode. I haven’t tested it a lot yet, but it looks as if this app has made reading PDF books doable. I have several PDFs that Amazon is unable to convert and I think I’ll load them up.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:55:55 +0000

Well, I really HATE spending $4.99 on an app. On the other hand, I have never read such glowing reviews about an app as those in the iTunes store for this one. So I bought it, and it is everything it’s cracked up to be and enabled me to get rid of two other apps that supposedly allowed all sorts of files to be read but only sometimes. For those having problems with FileMagnet, dump it and get this. I transferred and read pdf, txt, Pages 09, Word, and Excel. I just wish now that I had still had the pdf files that were converted by Amazon for the Kindle but I had deleted them after I received the .azw file. Next time I run into a pdf book, I may try it on the iPhone using GoodReader.

By: Rafal

Rafal — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:32:46 +0000

Yeah, GoodReader is really “good.” PDFs that consist solely of images load pretty fast as well.

By: Paul Biba

Paul Biba — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:19:41 +0000

Fixed, thanks.

By: Mike Perry

Mike Perry — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:54:50 +0000

Maybe it’s the sweltering Seattle heat, but I didn’t see a link the Palm-Mac blog. You can find it at:

http://palmmac.typepad.com/palmmac/

He seems to be a Palm fan who’s converted to the iPhone.