[KPW2013]

Hey guys, I just started university and I just figured that it would save me money if I got a paperwhite and just got the ebook ver. of everything. My textbooks in total would cost upwards of 600.

I think most people would recommend a tablet for reading but the problem is that the LCD screens strain my eyes if I read for long periods and I've read many good reviews on the KPW.

I already found the ebook versions for the bulk of my textbooks but they're all in PDF format and from reading here, it probably won't be too comfortable for me to read; due to the lack of reflow for a smaller screen, lack of text size formatting, and the fact that I'd have to zoom everytime to be able to read the texts if the pages are too big for the screen.

I thought, "Hey, maybe I should convert them to another format!"

I tried many different ways to convert the entire ebooks to text but none of my attempts were successful. I used finereader but it didn't come out too well probably because there are too many images (they are textbooks after all). I tried unlocking the PDFs, but I still can't select anything because they're all presumably scanned images. I was thinking of hacking the KPW to be able to read epub, then convert my PDFs to epub format but I'm already having trouble converting it with OCR software.

So... My plan is to subscribe to adobe exportPDF so they can convert all the images to word format, then I can send it to my KPW once it arrives in a couple days and it will automatically convert to AZW or ePub (if I decide to hack my KPW).

Now all my textbooks in PDF format (6 books), my questions are... Has anyone done this? After I convert everything, will the files get bigger? (in AZW and ePub)?

Thanks.