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Old 02-09-2009, 04:56 PM   #108
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Device: PRS-505, PRS-300 & HTC HD2
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Sadly it seems many people won't buy a reader if PDF isn't in the bullet-point list of features. They don't realize it sucks and is therefore relatively insignificant until they try it. I give Amazon some credit for listing the conversion as "Experimental" rather than just saying they support it. They realize they can't support it well so they don't mislead you into thinking it's going to work the way most people would expect it to.
I'm one of those people that won't buy a reader if it doesn't support PDF.
I do realize how PDF sucks ; on the other hand the majority of the stuff I read is only available in PDF.

I tried every conversion tools and for books with image/tables the results is always very bad, while the native support with reflow I have with my reader is quite usable, if certainly still inferior to every other ebook format.

While this is a deal-breaker, the killer app of the K2 for me is neither the TTS or the sync feature, but the Wikipedia support.
Did none of you ever want to Wikipedia to look for something, and stayed like 30 min jumping from articles to articles?
I already have Wikipedia on my Smartphone in Tomeraider format, but it's far from perfect. I hope that its works right on the Kinddle.
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