Help does anyone know about PDF Readers?

Sumatra reader. Light and fast.

Adobe Acrobat reader is free, dunno if there is better though.

+1 for Sumatra, for me personally it's hands down the best reader I've ever used, just as long as that's all you need. As long as you just want to read and not edit or create or whatnot it contains none of the fluff/bloat(?) that other readers, including Adobe acrobat, contain. Also if you're a google chrome user you can select that to open pdfs file types whether you're online or not. Iirc Firefox can do that too now, or I'm not sure, been a while for me.

I should point out chromium-based browsers can still read PDF files offline if you're willing to deal with the relative lack of features that you would get on dedicated applications.

I don't use PDFs that much anymore, but I switched away from Adobe a while ago because I couldn't get it to stop updating. I tried disabling the update service, disabling updates in the registry, and even deleting all the files it uses to do updates. After all that it would just reset all the settings I changed, redownload the files I deleted, and update the program.

I don't need any special feature and just wanted something basic that would work, so I went with Sumatra.

I use Foxit Reader and it works fine and is free, no clue if it's the best but it works for me, don't remember why I went for that one.

I use Foxit Reader.

Foxit Reader.SumatraPDF.(You can get them from and keep them updated with Ninite(DOTcom)).

+1 Sumatra, lightest one you can find for Windows.

Sumatra and Foxit are nice. Both has a portable version that you don't even need to install in case you're moving between PCs.

GitHub - freedomofpress/dangerzone: Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs
https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone
About Dangerzone: Convert potentially dangerous documents into safe PDFs
https://dangerzone.rocks/about.html

🙄oOO(It would be a good idea to open and convert from these, and then open further from what seems best from a security standpoint.)

In the past, there were readers that could open PDFs securely, but when they were no longer updated, they were used as material for hacking.
I don't think that opening a pdf is 100% safe, so at the very least, it is safe to run a general security scan before opening it.
(Well, all computer-related events are comforting. Don't forget to ensure backups and recovery methods.)

There's also this nice, open-source and portable program called pdfarranger that lets you... well, arrange pdfs.

Big fan of Okular.
https://okular.kde.org/

Browser isn't enough? I used Foxit before but now i just use Firefox for that.

Chrome opens PDF, pretty sure Firefox does as well? If you want to have something stand-alone, yea adobe does it. It's free don't let me lie to you about a subscription. You could also convert or jpg or screenshot each page? That would be not ideal since you can't zoom though.

If you want the simplest, no fuss one, I recommend Lector.
It is basically the PDF reader app from Firefox in its own app, its super fast and lightweight.

If you like a fancier UI and some added features, SmallPDF also has a reader app that lets you do some stuff with PDFs as well such as combining them etc. (it's freemium though)

Everything was said already... :D

I use Foxit

IMO PDF-XChange is the best. Even a free version offers a lot features.

Thorium Reader and Koodo Reader are interesting ways to read ebooks,comics, magazines aswell.

The best one, that no one here has likely heard of probably, is STDU Viewer Everyone should look at it. It views any file and format with various standard options, but no bloat. The program is only 3MB.