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reading scientific textbooks and research papers on the go is my intention
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I've been using my Kindle (4, non-touch) for reading PDF files - including a few-hundred page thesis with diagrams. I've been very pleased with it for that.
I use it in landscape mode. It seems to auto-crop so the whole screen is used without too much white space at the edges - at least, I found I haven't needed to crop before loading PDFs onto it.
Some PDFs end up with fairly small font size, and that font size is not easy to alter due to the nature of PDF -- fine if your eyesight is good like me, maybe not otherwise. You can zoom, but I haven't seen any evidence of usable scrolling behaviour when zoomed (i.e. scrolling that isn't highly labour-intensive). Kindle DX is bigger and I believe designed for this very purpose, but I think not available in UK? Personally I prefer the small size of Kindle 4 non-touch.
Kindle touch used to be poor on PDF. I hear it has got better at that, but have no personal experience with it to share.