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"Interesting, thanks. As far as I can tell, it's possible to convert PDFs to the Kindle's native format, any idea if this improves the situation?" Yes. I use m

by kroger 16y ago

"Interesting, thanks. As far as I can tell, it's possible to convert PDFs to the Kindle's native format, any idea if this improves the situation?" Yes. I use mobipocket creator [1] to convert pdf files to the mobi format. It's free and works pretty well for documents with one column. For papers with multiple columns (like those from journals) I use papercrop [2] to slice the pdf in smaller parts so I can read in my (non-dx) kindle 2. [1] http://www.mobipocket.com/en/downloadsoft/productdetailscreator.asp http://www.mobipocket.com/en/downloadsoft/productdetailscrea... [2] http://code.google.com/p/papercrop/ http://code.google.com/p/papercrop/ edit: small fixes

MichaelSalib 16y ago
Papercrop looks really intersting...does it store text as text within the output PDF or does it just convert chunks of the page to an image?
- kroger 16y ago
  It just convert the chunks to an image (the final format is a PDF as well). The result is a little bit hacky, but it works. If your goal is to catch up with your reading pile, so it may work for you. On the other hand, if you need/want to go over every single detail (tables, formulas, etc), it may not work so well. As usual, YMMV. [Actually, mobipocket creator seems to be not too bad at converting multi-column documents. The problems I had converting academic papers were tables and math, and not the fact they had more than one column]