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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Actually most people are fine with PDF's. I know I am (except on 6 inch screens). Most of the negativity comes into play when someone wants to turn a PDF into something else. A PDF just doesn't convert well... easily. I doubt it ever will.
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Your last sentence is very important... The whole point of PDF was so that a document would always look the same regardless of the computer reading it or the printer printing it.
... That being said, as a former graduate student and a researcher who reads and writes technical PDF's I can't say I am happy or not about what you can and can't do with them on a Kindle. I appreciate what they do for journals, printing, etc, but I do wish I could easily read them on my Kindle.
I can imagine other tablets are a decent solution, even a DX may be a decent solution, but in the technical world color is becoming more common, and I personally hate reading off a backlit monitor.
I really just wish the Kindle had a mechanism so that PDF's could be somewhat cropped to a specific size (you can do that via the zoom already) and then the page forward buttons would quickly scroll you to the bottom of the page and then the next page... similar to the way the page-up and page-down button works on a PC with Acrobat Reader.
It isn't ideal, but I don't think PDF's should need converting to ebooks. I just wish they could be handled a little better. I hate having to scroll around with the arrow buttons and the page forward can have me skipping parts of pages that I don't want to be skipping. The color issue will have to wait until colored e-ink becomes an option if it ever does.
By the way, I do find that turning the Kindle sideways and reading a PDF (6 in screen) is a reasonable method of reading a PDF.