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Old 06-01-2008, 02:58 AM   #45
Alisa
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Originally Posted by jplumey View Post
The Kindle would do no better at formatting PDF's than the Reader does. PDF's are not text documents, they were designed for retaining formatting at specific sizes.
Yep. That's why, even though they offer free PDF conversion, they make it explicit that it is "experimental". They don't claim they support it because they can't do it well. They've taken a lot of flack for that from people who don't understand. I can't tell you how many flames I've seen in the comments on sites like gizmodo and engadget along the lines of, "What do you mean they don't do PDF? PDF is teh most common ebook format ever. FAIL." They do PDF about as well as any 6" reader can. They're just honest about it.
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