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>>heyden+(OP)
As to the writer's problem with PDFs on the web: they aren't for reactive web app viewing on mobile phones. Not everything has to be. If you reeeeeeeally need to read that research paper, find a screen that's bigger than 3" wide.

>>0xbadc+xja
Why shouldn’t I read research papers on my phone? That’s where I read almost everything else.

>>simonw+lqa
Even when reading on the phone, I do not understand the complaint against the two-column format.

The one-column format is fine on a large monitor, but on a small phone I prefer narrower columns, because a wide column would either make the text too small or it would require horizontal panning while reading.

So I consider the two-column format as better for phones, not worse.

>>adrian+MAa
One of the most complex and battle-tested open source projects is essentially a rendering engine for semantic text that has supported reflowing text to fit the screen for decades. And now you’re seriously considering having to zoom in on a column, then scrolling all the way back up and right to the next column, then down to the footnotes at the bottom, then to a random figure, to be a solution?