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PDF's
If your PDF is mostly text just e-mail it to <yourname>@free.kindle.com then download it and copy it to your kindle. If you have an extra 10 cents you can email it to <yourname>@kindle.com and it will show up via whispernet.
If your PDF has a lot of graphics or tables... just forget it or read it on your lap top. It's going to end up looking like crap on the Kindle 2. No program available today can properly render an 8.5 x 11" page on a tiny little 6" screen. You won't be able to read it. And E-Paper doesn't zoom or pan very well. So like I said, forget it.
You can get the Kindle DX. It's got a bigger 9" screen but I still find a full 8.5x11" page is too small to properly read. You can turn the DX on it's side and read the top half of the PDF first then scroll down and read the bottom half. Of course that doesn't work for magazines because they tend to be in columns and all that scrolling up and down makes the process unpleasant.
I found the DX a bit too big and a bit too heavy so I returned mine and went back to the Kindle 2.
Until the Kindle 3 or 4 or whatever comes out with proper pan and zoom capabilities I don't think graphical PDF's are worth the bother for the Kindle 2 or the DX. Just read them on your lap top or print them out and read them on paper. Much nicer experience. But for text based PDF's... Amazon's free conversion is easy and works great.
As for Savory, it does work... but it's buggy and slow. I found it caused problems when Amazon tried to update me. I had a few tense moments thinking I'd bricked my Kindle. No more of that stuff for me!
Bob
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