[Zistmo]

I have a Kindle Paperwhite and a big collection of scanned pdfs. My experience is bad most in most of the cases and I would never recommend the Paperwhite to someone that wants to use scanned pdf files.

What is really *annoying* is that I did not have this problem in my kindle keyboard and I have recently seen that the Kindle 4 deals ok with scanned pdfs as well.

When I contacted Amazon, their answer was vague and not very helpful, kind of someone tells you that they take note and will report your problem to someone that, at the same time, will have to pass it to another guy... so forget about it. Last updates of the firmware did not solve the problem and I lost all my faith in them months ago...

Any reflowing app is not even a suggestion here, unless the pdf has been thoroughly reviewed trhough a good OCR software, which is usually not the case.

Another problem that I have found recently is scanned pdfs with missing letters when they are opened in the Paperwhite (see attached file below).

My hypothesis is that the increased resolution in the Paperwhite makes it harder for the processor/memory to render and display scanned pdfs properly. That would explain as well the problems with the "low memory" message that
is unfortunately frequent to many users that want to read pdf files in the Paperwhite.

My suggestion: get a Kindle 4 or an iPad.

Contrary to the opinion to many people the Kindle —or any other ereader— could be more than decent displaying pdf files. The lack of commitment of Amazon and other companies for this format is a shameful consequence of incompetence and a narrow commercial strategy focused on selling ebooks rather than making decent machines.

E-readers are cheap toys created mostly with the intention of selling bestsellers... junk-novels or popular science books that people read in the public transport and that can be easily forgotten when finished... not for serious readers that want to work with annotations in a more advanced level, or that want to organise their libraries with multiple folders or tags, or use pdfs or other formats, or browse quick and seamlesly from one section to other inside a book, or enjoying a minimum level of usability etc.

That's why in my opinion Amazon will fall far behind Apple when the iPad mini with retina display reaches the shops. OK that the e-ink display is nicer for reading... but the disadvantages of the Kindle are many and quite annoying.

[Ups, sorry for such a long post...]