[maciek_j]

Hi all,

I am just considering a purchase of an e-book reader and started by digging on this forum. I chose Kindle 3 because of: 1) a price, 2) 3G/wifi 3) I am Amazon customer anyway.
However, I find contrary or ambiguous information about formats conversion, which is crucial to me, cause I have a lot of technical books in PDF format.
Some of you write: "use calibre, and it works perfectly!" whereas others say: "forget about calibre, go through three conversion in a row, fiddle hard and you might end up with crap anyway"
So my question is: what can I expect? Will I have to scroll back and forth (because lack of reflow) which would make the PDF unreadable? I presume it happens only to PDFs, and then I will be able to reflow after conversion to mobi, right? What is the rate of PDFs that convert painlessly? Will I be able to change font size? Will I loose tables / pictures ?

I am that close to buying Kindle, but the PDF issue is the last thing that holds me back, so I will very much appreciate your help.

Moreover I might want to read free epubs; as far as I have learned here that works pretty well - true?

Thank you very much,
Maciek