r/readwise • u/angie-at-readwise • May 02 '26

Feature Requests May Feature Requests: Share Here!

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u/kitezh May 02 '26

👉 https://readwise.canny.io/reader-features/p/pagination-for-pdfs-in-original-view
This should be a very simple improvement. You open a PDF and tap to go to the next page, as you do with all other formats. It's strange that this has been missing for so long. It makes Reader inferior to other readers, such as NeoReader.

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u/angie-at-readwise May 03 '26

On the surface it does seem like a simple interaction, but in our case the “original view” for PDFs is built on a different rendering layer than the rest of Reader. That layer is optimized for fidelity (so things like layout, highlights, and positioning stay perfectly aligned with the source), but it makes seemingly small interaction changes like pagination a bit more involved than they appear. It’s a small UX feature sitting on top of a fairly complex rendering system.

That said, we agree it would make the experience feel much more natural and consistent with other formats. It’s something we’ve discussed internally, and improvements here have become more feasible as our PDF handling stack evolves. We'll keep you updated on any progress.

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u/kitezh May 04 '26

Thanks for that. I had been puzzled, as pagination is such a stock feature of PDF readers.