What is the best monitor for reading pdf text all day in portrait mode?

[destaubin]

Hi. I'm running an older laptop with multiple monitors that is restricted to no greater than 1920 by 1200 by both the graphics card and the external adapters. I do a lot of pdf reading close up: 8 to 10 hours a day; and about 2 to 4 hours of excel work almost exclusively in portrait mode, usually reading close up so that I can see the text when small enough to grasp more than a page at a time, (excepting for the 14.1 inch laptop monitor that I barely use at all). I never do gaming or video's but have to surch academic files online for the documents. Financially I would like three monitors so $250/each is about what I can handle. I will be the first in line to buy a 24 inch e paper monitor when hell freezes over and they finally become a reality. Until then the question is: do set up three: 21.5 Dell p2212h, p2214M, U2312M, U2412M. or should I be headed a different direction all together. I would like to not see pixels (too distracting). Are there some panel technologies more conducive to portrait mode. Ps. I'm pretty sure that I cant use scaling with external video adapters. Thanks a bunch. All suggestions welcome.

 

[bystander]

Portrait mode is more of a factor of how it is packaged, the displays themselves don't really care. However, you will definitely want to look at IPS monitors, rather than TN for this, as for reading text and good viewing angles, IPS wins out.

It would help people if you also gave a budget, and a size that you are looking at. You may like a 24" monitor, rather than smaller ones.

 

[destaubin]

Portrait mode is more of a factor of how it is packaged, the displays themselves don't really care. However, you will definitely want to look at IPS monitors, rather than TN for this, as for reading text and good viewing angles, IPS wins out.

It would help people if you also gave a budget, and a size that you are looking at. You may like a 24" monitor, rather than smaller ones.

The pixel density and/or pitch of a 24 inch monitor is such that I can count the pixels across most text: not good. The AOC 21.5 1920 by 1080 monitor I'm using to write this is not as clear as my 14.1 monitor at 1200 by 800. A 23 inch 1920 by 1200 would probably be the minimal PPI that I could deal with visually. But until its up to PPI of 108, its likely to be a compromise. Unfortunately, to get larger PPIs, you loose screen space. The budget is $250 per monitor, but flexible as I have old tv type monitors that will allow me to purchase one new monitor at a time if need be. Thanks again for your help.