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Originally Posted by rlauzon
But it's still not clear (to me, at least) whether PDF [...] will require conversion.
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Depends on what you mean. Bill McCoy -- who should know -- says in his blog: "just stick a PDF on a MemoryStick or SD card, insert, and read". If that is right, no external conversion is required. But ...
The Reader PDF is also described as close to PDF/A, which is based on PDF 1.4. That means that some later features probably won't be supported ... for example jpeg2000 compression and object streams (for improved compression). OpenType font embedding was, I believe, also to some extent an 1.6 feature. If the document you want to read uses those features, some kind of conversion appears to be necessary. And there is also the statement that there will be no support for reflowing: you will have to pan to read documents intended for page sizes large enough to make the text illegible at 'fit width' zoom. And of course there is always the implementation limits for any particular PDF reader version. But that would be nothing special to the Sony Reader: you'd have similar problems if you use Acrobat Reader 1.4.