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Cathbad · 04-21-2008, 04:55 PM

I am 65 years old. I was a couch potato before the term was invented, a nerd/geek before those terms were invented and have been in IT for 40 years.

The Kindle is the first ebook reader I have bought and I like it so far.
I do have a problem and I hope someone here has solved it.
If I send a small PDF to my Kindle via Amazon the conversion is decent.
If I send any PDF larger than 20 megs it fails because gmail has that limit.
I have used Mobipocket creator to convert it to PRC. I then copied it to the Kindle. But the font size is hopeless, and the Font sizing doesn't work for .prc files.
Does anyone know the secret?
I have a lot of big fat programming books for which I also have the PDF. I have an 8GB card in the Kindle. I could carry a small programming library with me if I could convert the PDFs correctly.

04-21-2008, 04:55 PM	#1
Cathbad Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Kindle	I'm an Old Geek I am 65 years old. I was a couch potato before the term was invented, a nerd/geek before those terms were invented and have been in IT for 40 years. The Kindle is the first ebook reader I have bought and I like it so far. I do have a problem and I hope someone here has solved it. If I send a small PDF to my Kindle via Amazon the conversion is decent. If I send any PDF larger than 20 megs it fails because gmail has that limit. I have used Mobipocket creator to convert it to PRC. I then copied it to the Kindle. But the font size is hopeless, and the Font sizing doesn't work for .prc files. Does anyone know the secret? I have a lot of big fat programming books for which I also have the PDF. I have an 8GB card in the Kindle. I could carry a small programming library with me if I could convert the PDFs correctly.