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In my opinion, yes. I tried many options to get PDF's to look good on the Reader without success, until I heard about PDFRasterfarian. Not too sure how you'll get it to work for you PC books, by Alex does have a mode in the program to half or quarter the page; i.e., if pages are in the column format, then it will split the page into easily viewable quarter pages. I haven't had the need to do this just yet, but on some of the PDF's that I had of the 8.5x11 variety, PDFR worked wonders. One thing to note, no matter which way you go, unless you have PDF's w/ embedded fonts (if you can select the fonts using AcroRead's text-select function, then you can simply copy/export text to another format) the resultant conversion will have pretty small font. This does not bother me too much, but for many people here who prefer larger fonts, this is a problem.
Secondly, the conversion process will cut the file size any where from 30-70%; e.g., my personal examples: 12.4 to 1.5, 31.9 to 5.7, 8.0 to 3.5, 9.0 to 3.9, 9.7 to 3.8 (all being in MB). Just a small sampling, but some raw data nontheless. I did have one rare occassion where it increased from 3.1 to 8.9MB, not sure why but something to note.
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