[Ask HN] Any feasible way of Managing Large Scanned Imaged Over 200MB PDF's
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You left out the two most significant data points to help us help you. What is the scan resolution and bit depth of the images inside these pdf's. Because if you have scanned these books at 600dpi 32-bit color, then no wonder page flipping is slow. If so, you should reduce the color depth to 1-bit (black & white, assuming when you say "book" you really mean "book" as in black text on white paper). Going to black and white would likely seriously reduce your file sizes, while also seriously accelerating your page flip rate.
You could try to convert them to djvu
http://djvu.org/
That might help your size issue but I have no idea if it will be readable on a ebook.
BTW: I also checked out some ebook reader but they still need years of development before they can be like paper book not in terms of quality and environmental stuffy but rendering this large pdfs.