[SensualPoet]

I tried the manual update using the (recently purchased) Kindle 2 Global Edition. It works exactly as advertised -- including the pdf thing. I did have my Home page filtered by "Books Only" and had to reset that to "All documents" to see the pdfs.

Search works with pdfs built on text. But switching to horizontal mode is pretty much required. Given the limited screen real estate, it's pretty solid.

If I were creating a pdf specifically for the device, I'd make sure the font was suitable for the screen. Since I create pdfs from word docs and use Primo pdf to "print", this will work really well for me.

UPDATE: I gave this a quick test using some genealogy software to generate a file. Setting the page size to "A5" -- which is abt 5 x 8 -- creates a presentable, readable document. Woo-hoo!