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Originally Posted by Josieb1
I naively didn't even know what PDF reflow was when i bought the Kindle. As my Sony displayed PDF's okay i assumed all ereaders did.
I found out via a You Tube video done by babyd once she got her kindle, and was devastated, i was all ready to return the Kindle and buy the Sony 650 (I had the 505 and the 600) but once I realised Calibre could reformat my PDF's to MOBI i was okay, but if Calibre hadn't been able to do that the Kindle would have been returned and i would have bought a 650.
We are not all technicall wizards who know what the correct terminology is. Prior to having the Kindle i spent over a year with two Sony ereaders and never visited this forum.
All i am saying is PDF reflow is important, and just because you (and others) don't like PDF doesn't mean it should be pushed to one side and ignored.
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I have many documents in pdf which has some international characters. Nook does support pdf reflow and correctly display these characters, but when I convert them into epub or mobi, they don't display. pdf reflow is a huge plus for Nook, Sony, etc.
One another point: with pdf reflow, you retain original page numbers no matter how large the screen font is -with larger fonts, you have to turn more pages in order to jump to the next pdf page. this way you can reference an article downloaded as pdf into your ereader.
In addition to epub, pdf reflow is a huge issue that makes Kindle significantly less than a complete e-reading solution. Therefore, it has little to no use in academic environments.