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Originally Posted by jj2me

Try PDF Scissors, described here.

Click Start, wait for the pages to load, one on top of the other so you can see what to crop. Select and crop about 1/2 a page of text. Duplicate that rectangle (copy-paste), and drag the second rectangle down to the lower half. Save.

You can do thirds as well, I assume (the rectangles are numbered, but so far I've only tried halves). If you don't get half on your first try, just delete the second rectangle, select the pointer tool, and drag the lower edge of the first rectangle up or down as needed, and repeat.

The Kindle World blog article also mentions BRISS, but I haven't tried that. Maybe I'll try it for even/odd page margin differences if I really need to squeeze every last margin out of a PDF, or if two-column results aren't good (I haven't tested two-column yet). But I've been very pleased so far using PDF Scissors.

Looks promising. I'll try the program and post my experiences here.

Originally Posted by Starko

I use Nitro PDF Pro to crop white space in PDFs. It actually has an option to "Remove Margins" automatically although better results can be achieved with manual cropping. Manual cropping is a little more involved but still quite manageable - You can apply your cropping setting to all, odd/even or selected pages. I found that after removing pretty much all of white space most (book) PDFs are really well readable in landscape orientation. And even portrait can be quite OK.

@barty What is duokan firmware? and where one can get it?

Hmm, I'll try this Nitro PDF. I've done something similar with PDF Tools, but who knows, maybe this 'Nitro' healps, worth trying anyway.

I believe this "duokan firmware" is an alternative firmware you can load to your kindle to enable some other features.

Originally Posted by Barty

For PDF, I recommend the old paper and printer technology.

If your PDFs are reflow able, that is, they contain text and aren't just scanned images, you can try the duokan firmware which I hear does a better job. There's a big thread in the developer sub forum.

Old paper and printer is what I'm trying to avoid. Been using it for years and those big ugly printed books are too heavy

For reflowable PDFs, the conversion programs like calibre or even the amazon email conversion actually do a good job. The problem are thos big scanned bastards.



Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I'll post again after I tried these programs you mentioned.