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tautologico · 10-28-2009, 04:58 PM

Thanks for the tips, will take a look into these tools (and I'm already reading the wiki).

What I need is to read textbooks and papers. Textbooks because they are often big, unwieldy and heavy, uncomfortable to carry and to read. Papers because I often need to read or skim many in a short time, so I'd like to not have to print them.

For textbooks I've been sampling many for the Kindle. Some are well formatted and are quite readable on the small screen, others are terrible. For papers I tried converting from the PDF but the result is often useless because tables and figures are not well converted.

So for textbooks I hope publishers make good versions of them for reader devices, but for papers I don't think this will be happening very soon. The ideal would be to read PDFs directly and without fuss. Failing that, if I have to apply a simple conversion process to a PDF before loading it on my device it's fine, but if I have to follow a complicated process or manually adjust things for each file, it will not work.

Well, I'll try and see what happens.

10-28-2009, 04:58 PM	#11
tautologico Member Posts: 22 Karma: 50 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: Kindle 2 International	Thanks for the tips, will take a look into these tools (and I'm already reading the wiki). What I need is to read textbooks and papers. Textbooks because they are often big, unwieldy and heavy, uncomfortable to carry and to read. Papers because I often need to read or skim many in a short time, so I'd like to not have to print them. For textbooks I've been sampling many for the Kindle. Some are well formatted and are quite readable on the small screen, others are terrible. For papers I tried converting from the PDF but the result is often useless because tables and figures are not well converted. So for textbooks I hope publishers make good versions of them for reader devices, but for papers I don't think this will be happening very soon. The ideal would be to read PDFs directly and without fuss. Failing that, if I have to apply a simple conversion process to a PDF before loading it on my device it's fine, but if I have to follow a complicated process or manually adjust things for each file, it will not work. Well, I'll try and see what happens.