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physics · 02-02-2011, 12:05 PM

Hi-

I'm a physics grad student, so I'm also reading pdfs with lots of math equations. Overall, the kindle dx doesn't do so terrible on showing the math equations- although if there's a letter beta in the text it screws that up (I've been in touch with their tech support over this.)

Part of it depends on whether you're looking at image pdfs or text pdfs. Image pdfs can be slow to load and slow to turn pages, but again, I find it usable. I've heard that the pocketbook 902/903 is slower, but don't actually know firsthand. Text pdf's (like journal papers) are pretty snappy.

The downside is that the kindle doesn't support links- or even a linked table of contents- so navigating in large documents can be hard. You can put bookmarks, but those only tell you the page number (in the pdf), so you're stuck wondering if the bookmark on page 207 is the start of chapter 6 or chapter 7. For text pdfs, search also works, but it can be pretty slow.

Hope this helps!

02-02-2011, 12:05 PM	#32
physics Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 729 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle DX	Hi- I'm a physics grad student, so I'm also reading pdfs with lots of math equations. Overall, the kindle dx doesn't do so terrible on showing the math equations- although if there's a letter beta in the text it screws that up (I've been in touch with their tech support over this.) Part of it depends on whether you're looking at image pdfs or text pdfs. Image pdfs can be slow to load and slow to turn pages, but again, I find it usable. I've heard that the pocketbook 902/903 is slower, but don't actually know firsthand. Text pdf's (like journal papers) are pretty snappy. The downside is that the kindle doesn't support links- or even a linked table of contents- so navigating in large documents can be hard. You can put bookmarks, but those only tell you the page number (in the pdf), so you're stuck wondering if the bookmark on page 207 is the start of chapter 6 or chapter 7. For text pdfs, search also works, but it can be pretty slow. Hope this helps!