PDFs with (very) variable page length

I'd like to make some PDF files specially made for reading on screen,
more specifically on the iphone. For much of this, a fixed page length
seems like a straightjacket. I want to divide the material into pages so
that one topic will fit on one page, without oceans of white space on
the bottom of each page. Thus, some pages will be very short, others
may be very long (much longer than you can comfortably print, for
example).

I imagine doing this with latex, setting \vsize to a very large dimen
and then using an explicit \newpage to start a new page. But how to get
rid of the white space on the bottom of each large page? Even the
thought of hacking the output routine gives me goose bumps. Another way
may be to redefine \shipout to take apart the page constructed by the
output routine and put it back together with the page at its natural
length. Are there easier, more natural ways to accomplish what I want?

I don't plan to use marginal notes in these documents, and if I must do
without floats and footnotes, that is fine too. I could of course do it
in plain TeX, but would like to have the added power of latex available.

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* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
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