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Originally Posted by talaivan
Well, this all sounds good, but what am I to do if I want to mark up a pdf on the Scribe and then be able to see it on a computer/ipad/other ereader? I totally agree that pdf's are not entirely satisfactory, to put it mildly -- for example, one cannot search many languages (Tamil, Hindi, etc.) on a pdf. But still many people organize their work around collections of many many pdf's, which they would like to mark up. I did try sending a pdf to my Kindle account, and I could mark it up without problem on the Scribe and liked the way the stylus worked. But when I opened the Kindle app on my mac, the file was without any of my mark-ups. Like them or not, pdf's, like the QWERTY keyboard, have now become universally necessary.
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Right now, they're only working on the workflow for the Scribe. The other Kindles and Kindle apps are the same as before.
What you are able to do now is send a PDF, it gets converted to Print Replica and you can do some markup and then have it send a PDF attachment to your email address. The PDF seems to be a placeholder, and it contains a series of images showing your markups. It is just enough to demonstrate what the end to end workflow looks like.
It appears Scribe will need a firmware update to fix the issue with not being able to interact with text. But the outbound conversion can probably improve without one. I think that any annotation you make will not require re-sending anything, it'll just start working after the firmware update.
It's not clear if the other Kindles will ever see any change from the existing PDF functionality. They can get a copy of the PDF that's sent in, but PDF's don't sync annotations and reading position.
They're probably already well along to replicating this workflow on the Android and iOS apps, and until then, they'll get something that looks like the PDF that got sent in. It's not even clear they are PDFs, since all you can do is create bookmarks (that don't sync) and zoom in. It's quite possible they could have ben Print Replica all along, placeholders for functionality yet to come. I'd actually be surprised if they were not, given what we've learned from Scribe.
Fire probably does have a PDF render capability in the Kindle app as I think your'e able to side load them.
When I get a chance I'll side load a PDF to the Kindle app for iOS to see what happens there. And try to load KFX from Scribe as well.