Thread: Kindle update - PDF support, increased battery, and more
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Old 11-24-2009, 08:35 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by coolgus View Post
PDF support is really nice but unfortunately there is no zoom function. Many pdf files I tried had small text and only with zoom I can read it. Neither landscape helped.

Is there any zoom function for pdf files which I haven't found ?
Looks to me they have just ported DX features to K2 (except K2 doesn't have hardware support to auto adjust orientation). So no zoom, no text reflow (no ADE/ePub/ACS...). At least now DX and K2 are on par in terms of their PDF support, or lack thereof.

As a K2 owner, that's welcome and useful enough, and will keep me from considering purchase of a non-Kindle dedicated reading device for the foreseeable future. Ultimately I believe I'll prefer a general-purpose, tablet device of some sort (Android, Windows7, or Apple) but I am going to be patient about choosing one.

I plan to create my own PDFs, formatted for K2's screen size. Mostly I want this so I can read non-Latin scripts on there (primarily Russian), and possibly some music stuff (chord charts, 'fake' book stuff etc.).
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