image heavy books, any experiences?

[malife]

Hey Huari, I too ended up using an iPod Touch, although PDFs are still pretty darn hard to read :-). And I hear you when you can't zoom and pinch in the Kindle app. Crazy I know :-).

Originally Posted by HarryT

But if reading PDFs was important to you why did you buy a Kindle in the first place? You know that it didn't support PDFs at the time that you bought it, didn't you?

Yes and No. I did know that PDFs where not natively supported but Amazon said it had "experimental" support for it. The only thing that Amazon just does not mention is that this experimental support is only reliable when you are using a text-only PDF. Because, for all the documents I tried to convert using Amazon's service, more than 90% came back with the images completely corrupted or simply not there. And for the ones that contained equations, well I just wont go there.

So yes I did know that PDFs where not supported (so that is my mistake) but I never thought that the PDF conversion service would be so terrible. I think what Amazon should do is be more explicit when he says that "some" complicated PDFs will not render correctly. Because, except for the scientific papers I tried (and failed) to convert, the other where just plain textbooks with some images (no eqns).

Anyways, that is my two cents and I respect those who like the Kindle, for reading novels and the like I think it is a superb device. It just did not work for me.

[JSWolf]

Amazon's experimental support is take a PDF, making a mess of it and giving you this mess in Mobipocket format. This is not what I'd call PDF support at all.