Hacker News Reader

For research articles I do this:

1. crop out page numbers: http://briss.sourceforge.net/

2. remove columns and reflow with: http://willus.com/k2pdfopt/

The later one works like magic, it totally made my ebook reader so much useful. (A Tolino Vision, a very fine german device not locked to the Amazon store: http://mytolino.com/)

(edit: fixed links)

View on HN

What do you mean by not locked to the Amazon store? Does the Tolino work with books bought from Amazon? How about Google, B&N, or Apple?

It means you can copy Epub files to it without conversion (with or without drm). It has direct integration with various ebook shops (mostly German) as opposed to be tied to the reader manufacturer's bookshop. It's not the panacea but it seems better than the situation with most other readers. I also enjoy the tap-to-flip feature (tap with your finger on the back to flip page), specially when lying on the bed.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com