Thread: Why do so many people use/care about PDF?
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Old 02-22-2011, 07:02 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by BobLenx View Post
PDFs are unreadable on a Kindle. Far too much maneuvering to read. Waste of time to even try it. Not sure why Amazon bothered - the format simply doesn't work.
This is a pretty broad statement.

For some PDFs I'd agree, but there are many where you can fit a full A4 page on the Kindle's screen and read the PDF without any problems.

The convenience of being able to carry several textbooks on my Kindle with no extra weight certainly outweighs the small downside that the text is a bit smaller than it is for books.

Other PDFs are perfectly readable if you look at them in landscape mode, splitting each page into two or three sections - this is still more convenient than lugging paper around everywhere.

The other use I've found for PDF on the Kindle is that it provides (IMO) the best way of displaying PowerPoint presentations. If I get lecture notes as a .ppt or .pptx I can save it as a PDF (using PowerPoint) and each slide is saved as a page in a PDF that looks great on Kindle.
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