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Originally Posted by coryj
I have read about the Sony's inability to display "normal sized" PDFs, and I have used some of the converters out there to sample them and I am somewhat pleased with the results (could be better, but its usable quality). With the kindle, I know of the "email it to yourself" conversion method which charges 10 cents per message... is there an easy/effective way to convert without the unneeded charge?
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Amazon will convert your PDF for free. The 10c charge is to download it for you to the Kindle via whispernet (so it is free if you download it to your Desktop and copy it to the Kindle via USB). The results of the conversion are probably similar (or even identical) to what the Windows MobiPocket Reader will do, but I have not seen any reports of an actual comparison between the two.
The standard Amazon/MobiPocket PDF conversion "reflows" the text. It is also possible to convert PDFs page by page into images, but the maximum size of a displayed image in AZW/MOBI format on the Kindle is something like 480x640 (with larger images rescaled on the Kindle before being displayed). In principle any of the PDF to IMAGE programs could come with a custom Kindle output option, but none does at present so far as I know.