The opening screen allows users to select
ebook view mode and then also select where the PDF file will be saved.
Not exact matches
The iPad stands up in both portrait and landscape positions to allow for different use situations — prop the iPad up in landscape to
view video, and in portrait
mode to read
ebooks or other content.
With the Samsung Galaxy Tab's built in Accelerometer you can easily switch your
viewing of
ebooks from horizontal to landscape
mode at the drop of a dime.
Ideally, you want to read
eBooks in portrait
mode because in landscape it gives you a two column
view.
If you want to read
ebooks, there are some extra features not available on Kindle ereaders, like the ability to use multicolored highlights, wordrunner, text - to - speech (with multiple voices to choose from), immersion reading where it highlights text while playing the audiobook, and the HD 10 adds two column
mode for landscape
view, which is quite nice.
Switching to portrait
view eliminates that problem, since you don't tap to turn pages in that
mode, on the optimized
ebook side.
For some reason the latest Amazon Kindle and Kobo
eBook apps, on the other hand, only offer single column
views — which look kind of funny when you're holding the tablet in landscape
mode because there are either huge margins on the left and right sides of pages (Kindle), or very long lines of text (Kobo).
Microsoft is paying a lot of attention to the reading experience and has revamped the reading
view in Edge so
eBooks, PDF files, and webpages in reading
mode all look the same for a consistent experience.