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Originally Posted by Nilam
You can download an application to read PDF's. I am using Goodreader, it costs a little over $1. But you have to deal with the PITA that is iTunes to upload the PDF files. The iPad can also read PDF's if you e-mail them to yourself, or access them via a web site.
I read large technical documents on my Kindle DX. It is the main reason I purchased it. I can not read these documents on the iPad, as I suffer eye strain using it.
As to the iPad I purchased it to demonstrate Web Applications to clients on a tablet. It does this well. Not very happy with the rest of it though.
I am happy with the Kindle not being a touch screen. The Kindle is what it is. It does not bother me using physical buttons. Also if Amazon did implement a touch screen there are two main ways. Finger touch which would add a layer over the top of the eInk, with the very real possibility of adding to glare. Or a tablet interface such as Wacom that would require a pen. What they have now works and works well. Why mess with it just because Apple has a touch screen on a multifunction device?
In technology it is important to remember just because you can do something, should you?
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I just can't read a 1000 page multi chapter book without being able to easily get around. more power to you. I did the free covert by sending some pdf's to free.kindle.com with convert in the title. it did allow me to bookmark the toc page (though toc is still grayed out in menu) so that is good, but like every 20th word will read something like "I went tothe store to buysome milk", which makes the converted pdf (now a azw file) pretty close to unreadable. I just wish they would enable darn pdf toc. common we put a man on the moon over 40 years ago, we can't have this on the most popular ereader on the planet?