Hi eschwartz,
Thanks for checking my post !
I used the official Amazon name

It's actually the Basic 2014 Kindle

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The thing with these multi column text and image pdf newspapers is that you have to crop each section you are interested in . I combine scissors, briss, pdf masher etc
I use K2pdf when the cropping done beforehand is close to the real deal.
I've seen a youtube review for the 2014 Basic and was pleased to see that you can zoom a 2 column image and table pdf on the device just like on an Ipone.
And I was wondering how the Kindle would present my newspaper pdf without me having to adjust it beforehand.
The pdf is ok, very crisp text, you can highlight words. It's not like an image pdf or scan