I am, currently, an owner of the PRS-500 and it bricked on me couple months back and now I am looking to replace it. Everything I've read about the Kindle sounds great but one question seems to bother me. On the PRS, it was pretty easy to convert a series of pictures to a .PDF and read manga that way. I know the Kindle doesn't support .PDF's but is there any other way to get my manga fix on this? It will be the deciding factor of whether or not to buy it. Thanks. :)

It does support PDF via the email conversion. However, unlike Sony the Kindle has less grey levels, so I am not sure how well it would convert.

On the PRS, it was pretty easy to convert a series of pictures to a .PDF and read manga that way. I know the Kindle doesn't support .PDF's but is there any other way to get my manga fix on this? If your PDFs contain images scaled for a 600x800 screen, then Amazon's free PDF conversion may be all you need. In fact, it might be worth trying no matter what size the images are. If you have an example that can be posted on public forums, upload it here for someone to try.

If you can wait a few more days, I'm going to try manga on my Kindle as soon as I get it.

Well I tried some manga, there's a .NET app on here that converts the JPGs into a PDF. Then I tried mobipocket creator from that PDF. I also tried the amazon conversion from the PDF.

The result is less than thrilling. The 4 shades of gray leads to the images not looking too great, but also beacause of the resolution/size of the screen the text isn't too readable.


That was just an initial test. I'm not sure if there's better ways of doing it that will lead to a nicer experience. ;-)