Firstly, many thanks for your answers. I appreciate your help very much, but unfortunately don’t understand everything, probably because I have never had a reader and am new to this subject.
Just to make sure: I understand that either PDF on K3 screen fills up the whole screen (which makes it tiny) or after enlarging in has to be scrolled from left to right and back, which makes it very inconvenient to read, right?
Secondly: what is the difference between ‘genuine’ mobi, and mobi obtained from pdf? As I understand: they are both convenient to read on K3 (they reflow), but one converted from PDF might loose tables and figures, right? Anything else?
Thirdly….
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Welcome to MobileRead, maciek_j
Everyone has their opinions about pdf's and epub......I use Mobipocket Creator to convert pdf's , then import to Calibre.......super fast, actually, I like the results better, however, if the book is really badly done to begin with, nothing will help.
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Do you refer to epub, PDF, or both?
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Originally Posted by JaneD
I have not had good luck reading PDFs on my k3. The type is way too tiny. On the DX it was a different issue: the screen is so large that the PDFs worked out ok. For example, I would read PDFs of scripts on my DX with no problem, but on the K3 it's just too tiny to read.
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What do you mean by 'too tiny'? If you are able to convert to native format (like mobi), then words should reflow and there should be no problem of screen size, no?
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Originally Posted by tomsem
I've pretty much given up on converting PDFs for my K3. In less time than it takes me to convert it, load it on my Kindle and see how well it works (which for me is 'not often'), I can crop the headers/footers/margins and read it directly.
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By directly you mean native Kindles way? So, in that case you might be forced to scroll left and right ?
And, yes, it's interesting, how do you crop it?
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Originally Posted by joblack
Go with a Kindle DX Graphite and you will be fine.
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Well, I think that next year I will buy a tablet anyway. I suspect there will be loads of them on the market and prices will fall. So, that will be a ‘full size reader’. Because of that I prefer to get a portable device now; one with e-Ink for eyes convenience, long battery life, etc. Moreover I reckon that 3G and wifi are super, and as far as I know DX doesn’t have both.
So, I would prefer sticking to K3.