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Can anyone give me their take on viewing PDFs with the non-DX Kindle?

I've been seriously thinking about getting one. I read through reports and ebooks pretty heavily and my chief concern is that if I bought a Kindle I'd end up reading mangled PDFs where the formatting gets distorted to accomodate the smaller screen size.



Formatting is fine. PDF was designed for that very purpose anyway.

Zooming and generally navigating a PDF is a huge pain. Screen refreshes are slow. Much like navigating through a plot on a graphics calculator.

PDF reading is a good extra, don't expect too much. I convert all text heavy, non-technical books using "calibre" to the PRC format. Works well enough for reading for pleasure.

(PS. I have a Kindle 2. Received it a few weeks ago)


In short, it is 100% functional but if you plan on reading a lot of PDF's, look to the DX.


thanks. That is what I thought.

I think at the DX price point I might instead opt for an iPad.


The format does not get distorted. Before the 2.5 update, you were restricted to viewing the pdf in a landscape view at page width. So if you have an A4 sized doc, it would take about 2-2.5 'nexts' to get through a page. It was readable and I read a number of journal articles and programming books that way, but it was a less than ideal experience.

Post-2.5 allows you to zoom pdfs and pan.




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