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Do you guys have it? Is it usable for other formats than just PDF? I have a large collection of ebooks from "various" sources and they are in all kinds of forma
by yread 16y ago
Do you guys have it? Is it usable for other formats than just PDF? I have a large collection of ebooks from "various" sources and they are in all kinds of formats (djvu, chm, pdb) and I was wondering if it is actually better to get a Kindle or one of the other ones which support those formats natively (like Bebook One 2010 which is almost twice the price). It would be probably quite inconvenient having to email all those books (I have like 50GB of them)
- jonhendry 16y agoThe kindle supports a number of formats natively (.doc, .rtf, .html, pdf, .mobi, .prc, jpg) but not the ones you list. The little kindle isn't great for PDF - it's just too small.
- drtse4 16y agoNot really great for PDFs, they are shown with a border bigger than the one of regular ebooks and the zoom options are only 100% 150% 200%... Even 150% is too big to fit on the screen. It doesn't support many formats natively, only mobi,pdf and not much else, conversion is offered by amazon via mail but there is Calibre (win,lnx,osx?) that can easily convert from nearly every format (e.g. epub). You could simply convert what you want to read and transfer via usb.
- smackfu 16y agoYeah, and e-ink has a poor refresh rate for something like scrolling around a page. Fine for page-flipping, but not for scrolling.
- jonhendry 16y agoThe fix for the margins is to open the PDF in something like Preview.app and crop it so there are no fat margins. The kindle will honor the crop box. So the margins can go away, and the text can be rendered larger. That helps on the DX. But the small kindle is just too small. The kindle 3 offers contrast adjustment on PDFs, which also helps with the small fonts.