Comments on: How to Read PDF Files and Other Docs on iPhone & iPod Touch

By: mahalie

mahalie — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:05:35 +0000

Thanks BJ for the Stanza tip, I didn’t know you could put your own PDFs in their system.

Picking up Good Reader too, it remembers what page you are on and supports bookmarks, which is important to me!

By: BJ

BJ — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:31:30 +0000

I would have to recommend Stanza by Lexcycle if you're reading Novels or other text only (no images) media. iPhone app is very userfriendly. To get documents to the iPhone, open them in the Stanza desktop application and turn on sharing. Then look in "Shared Books" in the iPhone app to download the book to your iPhone. Success!

By: Aeryn

Aeryn — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:25:28 +0000

Another option is the app called Air Sharing… it basically turns your iPod Touch (what I have) or iPhone into a wireless USB drive. But that’s just the start of what it does; it also lets you look at the files you put on your device. It reads PDFs, JPEGs, Video, audio files, Microsoft office files, iWorks files, etc.

By: paper search engine

paper search engine — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:04:44 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions. Pdf paper search engine helps me to find pdf paper and this helps me to read.

By: Tobias Verhoog

Tobias Verhoog — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:19:28 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions of other solutions for reading documents on your iPhone. Dropbox is a very nice service, but if I’m correct the files are not stored on your device itself and that was a requirement for me since I have a iTouch. Same goes for Evernote if I’m not mistaking.

@Joe I’ve heard more good things about Good Reader and I like the app myself too, as you can read above. It is a paid app though and the handling of large files isn’t as good as they advertise with.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:38:05 +0000

Another good program for pdf reading on the ihpone is Goodreader. It can handle very large files with ease, and is very user friendly…

By: Evan Kline

Evan Kline — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:49:01 +0000

I use Evernote. I just drag a PDF into Evernote on my computer, and then it syncs to Evernote on my iPhone, where I can open and read the PDF file from within Evernote.

By: Blackberry user

Blackberry user — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:51:15 +0000

Any way to read pdfs for free on a blackberry?

By: Fireface

Fireface — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:18:37 +0000

I use DiskAid (on my PC) and FileAid on my iTouch – a perfer set of synchronising programs – not only for pdfs. I have a folder for pdfs that I need to read – the biggest problem is the iTouch/iPhone limitation on pdf file size that can be opened. Rather on the “lite” size.

By: newzjapan

newzjapan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:40:19 +0000

Here’s a big second for Dropbox. I just checked a variety of files last night and was even able to open and look at a PowerPoint. Excel and Word were no problem either, and as JakeInPro said above, it’s 2GB and you can access it from anywhere.