There are no good PDF readers in existence. There's Adobe, which is a proprietary, security-hole ridden piece of garbage. There's Evince, which seems to be the most popular under Linux, but made the switch to forcing Client-Side-Decorations to fit in with the GNOME 3 crowd, making the title-bar comically big and full of buttons. And there's Foxit reader which I guess is okay if you want to use a free trial of user subjugation for the rest of your life, and it has terrible cartoonish buttons.
What's more is the redundancy of information in PDFs. Each page has the pagenumber marked nicely and the margins defined, usually has a header and footer as well. This all made sense back when software couldn't be counted on to help you get around the content, but now even our shitty PDF readers keep track of pages and titles. There's no need for any of this garbage taking up extra space. Obviously these aren't mandatory things for PDFs to have but they might as well be. It is extremely uncommon that I see a non-meme PDF that uses space wisely. They're awkward to read because of the "fanciness" and that's exacerbated by the fact that they're vertical, while our screens are horizontal.
Most of the PDF readers let you have one or two pages open at once. With one page open, you have all this wasted horizontal space because lol u guize pdfs should be like paper. If you have two pages open, you have to keep scrolling up and down to see what the fuck it says before you can turn the page. Tablets are okay for this because you can turn them sideways but none of them (that I've encountered) have the same aspect ratio even as a piece of paper, which forces you to scroll to see one page, or to get bits of the previous and next pages on your screen. That's less of a problem but it's still annoying as fuck.
Really the only way to reliably read PDFs in comfort is to do what they were originally intended for, which is to print them off and make use of the built-in margins and page numbers and layout. This is gay for a lot of reasons. First of all who even prints things off anymore that's like ancient technology. Secondly if you don't have a printer then you suddenly have to go somewhere like a library or Kinkos to get it printed, which costs an arm and a leg. If you do have a printer then you are either going to waste X pages of paper on some meme that you're going to read once and then trash, so you might as well save the paper and just put up with the discomfort, or you're going to print off hundreds of pages of stuff that's actually worth reading and costs you a fortune in ink or toner. Both of which are so expensive to replace that the meme where you buy a brand new printer that comes with fresh ink instead of buying ink cartridges isn't even a meme it's real life I've done it. And you'd better hope that your printer isn't botnetted to hell and back, spying on your shit, and sending everything everything that you print off straight to NASA. You also have to worry about the printer dots and make sure that none of the things that you printed off are ever subversive to the secret police because they will use them to find you. Not to mention the numerous compatibility problems with GNU+Linux operating systems and the various distros that printer drivers have.
Send help PDFs are literally homosexual why can't we have a way to read them easily. There is so much valuable information caught up in PDFs that I want to consume, but it's just so hard when the format is gobbling ten thousand cocks. There is a huge wealth of knowledge that can't be found anywhere else except for buying books or renting them from your library. The Internet was supposed to make knowledge more accessible, and it did, but the process to retrieve this knowledge and put it into your brain is such a convoluted process that it makes those Catholic kids who drive one state away, get married, bone, and then get a divorce in one weekend so that they're not technically sinning look simple.
Do any of you guys have a solution?
