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Old 07-10-2010, 03:32 PM   #16
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KDX and PDF for reading are quite good if doc is created as a PDF targeted at a KDX.

As mentioned above highlighting, dictionary, annotations, etc are not up to snuff.

Zooming and panning is also not the same as zooming on the adobe reader. If the font on a PDF is too small to read on the KDX you can zoom it by 150, 200, 300%, or you can switch to landscape. Zooming does not reflow the larger text -- it just is pushed outside the viewable window -- so reading zoomed text requires frequent panning. On the DX 150% is often too much zoom -- would have been better on DX if had a 125% zoom. Landscape mode reading doesn't give you much on the page, but at least it's readable. On my KDX US reading in landscape mode is also noticeably slower.

For textbook/technical books I would say the PDF capabilities are not there yet.

Hope this helps
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