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Hi Hipopotamo
First of all it depends on what the effort and time you want to spend to convert PDF’s into something else the Cybook can represent well.
The best solution is the one who can revert the PDF (any type of it) into individual parts: mainly the text, formatted if possible, and images.
My experience is: think of the PDF as an actual sheet of paper.
To get a digital file as similar as in you would get if what you have in a sheet of paper, as if you had build it in lets say word, the best solution is to use a OCR program.
The market leaders in OCR software are: Finereader Pro 16 and Omnipage Pro 16.
After reverting your documents in, lets say a Word doc file or other format, you can convert it to mobipocket file, and thus read it without a problem in your reader.
Problems: it will take time, sometimes lot, it will cost money (ex: the cost of the OCR software), a bit.
Depending of the sophistication of the PDF file (or lack of) you can get quite good conversion results from Mobipocket Creator and of Mobipocket Reader for the PC import option function.
As the sophistication of format, or images, maps, photos, mathematic formulas, Greek scientific expressions, etc… appear, the quality of the conversion declines fast to a point of being useless.
As I say, I think the OCR program option is the best option, as lets one have control of how the OCR process operates: per example you can mark a part of your PDF with a mathematical expression as a image, the OCR process will not try to convert it and thus will not come out with the normal crap outcome as Mobipocket Creator/Reader does, because it just tries to covert everything to text, loosing formatting and not recognizing most of the letters/numbers and making the result useless.
Other option will be to buy a reader that can show a A4 PDF one can read.
For the crop of readers one can buy today, the unique solution is the Ilead, and that would mean you would have to sell your Cybook and buy new reader… but that is another story.
Bets regards,
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