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wallcraft · 05-31-2008, 01:05 PM

Your biggest problem will be PDFs. The Kindle essentially only reads MOBI files, so the PDFs have to be converted. One option is to convert to images, but I don't think you will be happy with this approach. So as a test, try importing one of your PDFs into Windows MobiPocket Reader. Its conversion to re-flowable MOBI is thought to be the basis for Amazon's e-mail Kindle service. Copy the resulting .prc (or .mobi) file to your N800 and try reading it with FBReader. In landscape mode, the N800's screen is the same width and half as high as a 6" E-Ink screen. So you need twice as many page flips, but this should tell you if this approach is likely to work for you. Or skip the N800 step and use Windows MobiPocket Reader directly (e.g. in a smallish window) to display the converted file.

If the technical books you want are already Kindle ebooks that might be a reason to buy a Kindle (they may not be otherwise availabe as ebooks). However, the publisher's don't always produce good ebooks particularly for non-fiction.

05-31-2008, 01:05 PM	#2
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	Your biggest problem will be PDFs. The Kindle essentially only reads MOBI files, so the PDFs have to be converted. One option is to convert to images, but I don't think you will be happy with this approach. So as a test, try importing one of your PDFs into Windows MobiPocket Reader. Its conversion to re-flowable MOBI is thought to be the basis for Amazon's e-mail Kindle service. Copy the resulting .prc (or .mobi) file to your N800 and try reading it with FBReader. In landscape mode, the N800's screen is the same width and half as high as a 6" E-Ink screen. So you need twice as many page flips, but this should tell you if this approach is likely to work for you. Or skip the N800 step and use Windows MobiPocket Reader directly (e.g. in a smallish window) to display the converted file. If the technical books you want are already Kindle ebooks that might be a reason to buy a Kindle (they may not be otherwise availabe as ebooks). However, the publisher's don't always produce good ebooks particularly for non-fiction.