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Originally Posted by davidspitzer
in some instances a pdf is just required for reading - conversion is not really a viable option - i.e. a two column textbook with a half page of footnotes on each page for example. I read pdf's just fine on my kindle DX - To say that Kindle is not a good platform for pdf's, in my opinion, may be a bit of hyperbole. I have 20 textbooks on mine ranging from 10 to 400 meg n size - all of them work just fine
The key for me was to scan all the book in black and white (best contrast) and crop all the white space in acrobat pro - i can read all of them comfortably in potrait with all of the formatting intact - I also delete all the pages before page one so that my pdf pages correspond to my physical page numbers - when my teacher says "turn to page 478" i simply type "478" and i am there.
I beleive the Kindle DX is a great opton for PDF's - yes other readers can zoom but why would you want to if you can just read a full page at a time (zooming and panning around to read is not very ergonomc for me)
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I think that's the problem I'm having with viewing PDFs on my Kindle, the white space on the outside causes the text to be very small. Is it easy to crop large amounts of pages the same way with Acrobat Pro? If so I might consider giving that a try.
I don't like how you convert it to PRC or another format with Mobi Creator or Calibre and it just mashes everything together, making pages numbers in them middle and chapters starting in weird areas.