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Americanchild · 01-02-2010, 03:47 PM

I was able to drag and drop PDFs to my new Kindle, however I would need a high powered magnifying glass to read it on the Kindle. I use Calibre to convert to mobi and have been very happy. Amazon still needs to work on the PDF software. Even the Cooler e-reader I sent back did a better job with PDFs then my Kindle 2.

Update: I have found that sometimes Calibre doesn't do a good job converting from PDF to mobi and other times it is wonderful. Therefore I have downloaded the pulishers edition of mobi creator for free from mobipocket and if my conversion with Calibre doesn't work then I try Mobi creator. Between the 2 I am find that I can read all the pdfs I have.

01-02-2010, 03:47 PM	#6
Americanchild Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 150 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Kindle 2	I was able to drag and drop PDFs to my new Kindle, however I would need a high powered magnifying glass to read it on the Kindle. I use Calibre to convert to mobi and have been very happy. Amazon still needs to work on the PDF software. Even the Cooler e-reader I sent back did a better job with PDFs then my Kindle 2. Update: I have found that sometimes Calibre doesn't do a good job converting from PDF to mobi and other times it is wonderful. Therefore I have downloaded the pulishers edition of mobi creator for free from mobipocket and if my conversion with Calibre doesn't work then I try Mobi creator. Between the 2 I am find that I can read all the pdfs I have. Last edited by Americanchild; 01-03-2010 at 10:51 AM.