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About half of the books on my KDX are PDF'S. These are mostly technical books. on PDF'S text is not reflowable -- so reading them on small physical screens can be problematic -- it depends on the physical target page size that the PDF was created for. If your reading screen size is equal to or greater than the PDF'S target page size, then the reading experience is great. On the KDX with its ISO A5-sized screen, the experience is OK for most textbooks -- less OK for things targeted at 8.5x11 (like magazines, etc). On balance reading PDF'S on the KDX was merely OK.
So I approached the KF with its small screen with some trepidation. Amazon has a new PDF reader on the kf. In general I have to say the experience reading PDF'S on the KF is at least as good as on the KDX, and in some cases better. This is due to two reasons: color and pinch to zoom.
I had not realized how much I was missing in many technical books by not being able to display color (in some cases on the KDX, turning colored text into a grey-scale shade severely degraded readability.
But the real advance comes with pinch to zoom and the generally very good responsiveness of the KF screen. This gives one the ability to make maximum use of unused margin space, and in the few cases where a page will not fit on the screen, the ability to quickly pan out and back or zoom out works reasonably well.
I have mostly been trying the KF out on textbooks printed on page sizes close to ISO A5. I have not yet looked at larger sized material like issues of Scientific American -- although just getting color there will be an improvement over reading SCIAM issues on the KDX.
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