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Originally Posted by Manichean
Actually, I bought the Cybook partly for reading PDFs. The intention was to have some math/physics reference books on it (multifile HTML for the most part, when buying I knew it wasn't supported, but I have the impression that Bookeen is working on it?) and use it for reading research papers and lecture scripts, mostly PDFs. I have to say that it isn't all bad. While being relatively slow, PDFs are pretty readable when using flipped landscape orientation and "fit to widh"; that way, the navigation key is conveniently under my right thumb. (By the way, I just timed the largest PDF on the device, 21 MB- it takes about 17 seconds to load.) Yes, the characters are quite small, but so far I have yet to find a PDF document I couldn't at least relatively comfortably read.
So, PDF reflow would be great, but I think I could manage with just user-selectable zoom levels. Oh yeah, there seems to be an image embedding method which results in one page being defined as a single image- those don't seem to work, would be great if they did.
ePub is even less of a deal for me, what fiction I read on the Cybook I've so far been able to convert to Mobipocket with absolutely no problems.
Sorry if this is a little incoherent, I've been studying the whole day, and it's been far too warm...
Edit: Oh yeah, just remembered: Converting PDFs to Mobipocket is out, seems to screw up formulas, which are pretty much essential in physics texts  |
You *could* use Adobe Acrobat Pro to turn the PDFs into Word .doc files and then re-convert from there. Not having done a conversion of a text file with lots of formulas, I can't speak to how well that conversion process would work. However, if the books are available in PDF, have you thought of looking for them in .chm? It's easier to port from .chm to .prc than from .pdf. I use the ABC .chm converter to translate into Word .doc and then go into .prc using either mobigen or BookDesigner.
Derek