Best PDF Reader Out There!

I was searching for a PDF viewer that does some very specific things, and every other PDF viewer out there was far too limited for my use. Sidebooks, on the other hand, is the only one I found that does it right. It allows viewing a page spread in landscape mode (also recognizing a cover page, so spreads will show correctly if there’s a cover page), Dropbox integration makes it easy to add or update files in the library, page trimming allows the cropping of empty/blank margins (which makes the content larger), bookmark list/links makes it easy to go directly to a specific bookmarked page, the lower page scrubber makes scrubbing to a specific page quick and painless. It is the best PDF viewer out there.

The only two issues that I’ve come up against the version I have (2.12) is that the page scrubber at the bottom doesn’t read the actual page numbers/sections in the PDF. For example if you have a contents section numbered i-vi, and then after the contents section, the main contents section starts with page 1, Sidebooks thinks this is page 7 in the scrubber since it seems to count only the pages in the document rather than looking at the PDF’s actual page numbers, so if you scrub to page 100 with the page scrubber, you’ll actually end up on page 94 of the PDF. Also, my PDF has links in the contents section that you can click to go directly to the specified page. Sidebooks does recognize these links, but they’re difficult to activate and the links have to be clicked in a very specific way, so pressing a link only works about 1 out of 6 tries. I’m hoping these issues will get fixed in a future update, but it’s still the best PDF viewer out there. (And if any developers are reading this, a night view mode that inverts the colors and makes the white page dark and text light, so that the screen isn’t so bright in dark situations, would be great!)

Thank you, Sidebooks!

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