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I have never once wanted to read a PDF on my Kindle and I'm not entirely sure why anyone would. Mostly because reading PDFs on something like kindle would be a
by clint 4y ago
I have never once wanted to read a PDF on my Kindle and I'm not entirely sure why anyone would. Mostly because reading PDFs on something like kindle would be a shit show (I assume this is entirely why they haven't added that functionality).
I've owned probably 10+ kindles, including the DX, and I think its honestly the bit of technology I used _the most_ outside of my iPhone.
- desindol 4y ago10 kindles? What happened to 9 of them?
- themadturk 4y agoI've owned at least six or seven. They wear out (I think only the first gen and DX had a replaceable battery), get broken, get lost. They are superseded by better models (front lighting on the Paperwhite was a game-changer).
- FalconSensei 4y agoI loved the DX. Used it for 8 years, I think. Great size for reading manga. Now I read manga on iPad, and use the paperwhite for books only
- nharada 4y agoMy 10 year old DX just kicked the bucket, I'm actually really bummed about it.
- MerelyMortal 4y agoI have a pristine, barely used DX with cover (Kindle DX Graphite?), maybe I should throw it on eBay? There are already a couple of listings if you're so inclined.
- nharada 4y agoI ended up grabbing a used Oasis, since my primary use case of reading papers has declined outside of grad school (and all of today's papers assume you have color printing). At this point I think I'm just going to use it for reading books.
- tjoff 4y agoHaven't added the functionality? I've used it a lot. There are apps to trim away all margins which makes it semi-decent.
- sundvor 4y agoA feature of the Scribe is "provides easy-to-adjust margins". Here's to hoping it'll also apply to PDF files.
- hwbehrens 4y ago> * why anyone would * Just to give you some context as a counterexample, I often need to read 10-50 pages of dense, size 10, double column scientific PDFs with many graphs and figures. These documents, which are typically either A4 or letter size, look abysmal at nearly any scale <90%. Color is also regularly required to parse many graphs properly. I use my Kindle exclusively for reading documents which are primarily lightly-formatted text (e.g. novels, textbooks, etc) but it's atrocious for PDFs. When needed, I switch to an iPad Pro that I use exclusively for reading (and annotating) these PDFs, which is likewise horrible for reading "regular" text.
- solarkraft 4y agoBecause many things are only as PDFs. We can hate it as much as we want, it is like that.
- int_19h 4y agoWhat do you mean by "they haven't added that functionality"? Kindles will readily open PDF files, and DX in particular was great for that on most documents, as the screen size large enough to fit one page at readable zoom level made scrolling unnecessary.