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Okay... here we are. About as exepected. Things that are usually turned into PDF's directly from a document usually come out great. Things that are scanned into PDF's usually don't (unless someone bothered to do some decent OCR on them.)
So a quick run through the shots:
14763 - This is a PDF of a journal article I just emailed myself. Unlike these others it was actually generated from a digital file and looks quite good. The weird text and stuff here is just a result of the coding at the top of the article. The article itself VERY readable.
14764 - As you can see in this image. This is later in that same article - you'll notice that it is even to use the strange punctuation and letter markings in the Pali/Sanskrit transliteration.
14768 - My syllabus. I just emailed it to myself and though it was certainly not made to be seen on such a small screen, it is still very usable.
18965-2 - this is a two column, badly scanned article. The Kindle sometimes parsed the text to make it look normal, and sometimes just showed the entire page like this making it unreadable.
18966-2 - This is another badly scanned article. However, it's only one column and the source it smaller so it is almost readable.
So.. in conclusion. For most PDF's that are over a few years olds, you're going to want a VERY big screen. For newer PDFS (which, at least in my fields, more often come from digital copies) any sort of reader that can handle that well should work.
But the big advantage of the Kindle again comes in the automatic email conversion and book stores.
A word about the Sony Reader (and others that use the LRF format, I've no experience with any others.) I spent an ENORMOUS amount of time editing and fooling around with files when I had a sony reader. With the Kindle I don't. It can either get converted well by emailing it or running it through Mobi Creator 95% of the time. if it can't... well, it usually can somehow but it'd be the same work as anything else and rarely worth it.
Just my take, at least.
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