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leha · 11-22-2007, 10:00 PM

Hi,

By any chance did anybody try to buy some science/textbooks or say programming books from Amazon for kindle? The collection of scientific books for kindle is quite big something like 16k what I am interested in is how they are formatted. Does Amazon just sell a "pdf" copy of printed edition or was layout changed to fit small screen? The later seems to be too difficult to do but the former means that most of these scientific books are unreadable on kindle.

PS: I have sony prs500 and reading textbooks on such small screen is quite difficult unless you do some tricks.

11-22-2007, 10:00 PM	#1
leha Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2006 Device: prs-500	Science/textbooks on kindle Hi, By any chance did anybody try to buy some science/textbooks or say programming books from Amazon for kindle? The collection of scientific books for kindle is quite big something like 16k what I am interested in is how they are formatted. Does Amazon just sell a "pdf" copy of printed edition or was layout changed to fit small screen? The later seems to be too difficult to do but the former means that most of these scientific books are unreadable on kindle. PS: I have sony prs500 and reading textbooks on such small screen is quite difficult unless you do some tricks.