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shinew · 02-19-2009, 03:30 PM

hello, I'm new to the forum and i'm about the receive a kindle tomorrow. I would like to get some info & prepare some PDF books to be loaded onto it. very excited!

I've downloaded Calibre and converted a PDF book to the MOBI format, it looks fine with the built-in reader. Then I found this forum and someone said the PDFReader does a good job converting PDF to MOBI. So has anyone used both and have a preference?

my main questions/concerns are:
1) will i still be able to change font size on my kindle with a PDF->MOBI converted file?
2) will it retain TOC if there is one?
3) which one convert technical books/manual better? such as a programming book or reference.
4) are there better alternatives for grabbing newspaper & blogs(for free) to a kindle than Calibre?

thanks you very much for your help!

02-19-2009, 03:30 PM	#1
shinew Addict Posts: 309 Karma: 1008082 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: NYC Device: Kindle PW, K4 Touch, iPad2, Samsung Galaxy S II	PDF to MOBI, Calibre or PDFReader or ??? hello, I'm new to the forum and i'm about the receive a kindle tomorrow. I would like to get some info & prepare some PDF books to be loaded onto it. very excited! I've downloaded Calibre and converted a PDF book to the MOBI format, it looks fine with the built-in reader. Then I found this forum and someone said the PDFReader does a good job converting PDF to MOBI. So has anyone used both and have a preference? my main questions/concerns are: 1) will i still be able to change font size on my kindle with a PDF->MOBI converted file? 2) will it retain TOC if there is one? 3) which one convert technical books/manual better? such as a programming book or reference. 4) are there better alternatives for grabbing newspaper & blogs(for free) to a kindle than Calibre? thanks you very much for your help!