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Originally Posted by Red Stapler
Hi all,
One of the (many) reasons I want an ebook reader is to read a few free technical pdf's I currently have on my computer, most of all the Navy Electricty and Electronics Training series of texts. I have Mobipocket Creator on the Windows virtual machine on my Mac, but I'd also like the option of a quicker way of conversion than firing up the computer and booting up VMWare Fusion, then Windows, then the MB Creator app, and dragging and dropping the files between OS's.
The main question is, how many folks have used Amazon's conversion, and how well did the documents cone out? Since both Sony and Bookeen have had firmware updates that improve their pdf capabilities, I'm wondering if they might be a better choice (although in the case of the Sony I'd still have to fire up Windows for firmware updates). I'm aware that reading pdf's on these devices can be problematic. I've seen a few screenshots that seem to indicate that the Amazon converted files are fairly readable, but wanted some other opinions. Thanks in advance for any insights and advice you folks have.
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I have not been happy with conversion of pdfs with lots of table and images. They just don't convert well, IMO. Text is fine.
If you could upload one or a few pages from a pdf of the type of text and diagrams you would need, I'll have Amazon convert them and upload images so you'll have a better idea if the Kindle will work for you.