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Originally Posted by HarryT
- Change the font size.
- Follow hyperlinks.
- Use the table of contents.
- Search for words.
The Kindle DX's PDF support is primitive in the extreme. It will display them, and that's all. No hyperlinks, no TOC, no searches; no anything, really.
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The not having active hyperlinks for Table of Contents is the biggest flaw of the Kindles with PDFs.
And I think that's rather huge.
Since I don't want to get any of the other units (yet), I convert a -copy- of a needed PDF to mobi and use the original PDF for layout reference. Then, with the mobi file I have the regular, very effective Kindle search, inline dictionary, and font size changes
Then I can highlight a word or phrase (or chapter title, end it with a spacebar instead of a 5-way button click, which pastes the item to a searchbox, and then ask it to Find the item, which works for table of contents.
As for the 'Search a word' not working with PDFs - it certainly does work, for text-based PDFs, but it's the irritating Adobe PDF search, one find at a time. Fatiguing.
IMAGE-based PDFs of course won't work with text-searches - I try to avoid image-based PDFs and have been successful. Those tend to be the books scanned, no OCR, and each page is just an image. Those will always have slow loading on e-ink screens.