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Old 04-12-2012, 09:27 AM   #1
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I know that the kindle support AZW and Mobi format, can the kindle support any of the indistry standard formats such as epub and PDF?
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Old 04-12-2012, 09:48 AM   #2
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It supports PDF (though PDFs don't look great on the 6" screen). It doesn't support ePub.

Edited to add: The Kindle page on Amazon lists the following formats:
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Content Formats Supported: Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; HTML, DOC, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion.
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Old 04-12-2012, 10:13 AM   #3
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It also (somewhat) supports html natively if you change the html file's extension to *.txt.
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Old 04-12-2012, 10:40 AM   #4
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PDFs can look pretty awful on the small screen. And, if you use Calibre, you could convert an ePub to mobi.
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Old 04-12-2012, 10:57 AM   #5
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PDFs look ok on the Kindle if they are actual documents and not just scans (pictures of documents) put in a PDF file
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Old 04-12-2012, 11:29 AM   #6
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Well PDF is industry standard. Ah, danger mouse I remember you well.
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Old 04-12-2012, 12:32 PM   #7
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Well PDF is industry standard.
What industry? And when?
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Well PDF is industry standard. ...
Yes and no.

PDF is an "industry standard" document display format.

PDF is not and "industry standard" ebook format.
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Yes and no.

PDF is an "industry standard" document display format.

PDF is not and "industry standard" ebook format.
An extremely important distinction, and I completely agree with you.
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Now that KT has landscape, I'll probably never attempt conversion of PDF again. It's perfectly usable for the PDFs I want to read or have on my Kindle for reference, and as for the rest, I'll find some other device to read them on. Not ideal, but better than spending a couple of hours converting things that weren't meant to be converted in the first place.

And on screens bigger than 7" or so, one can start to appreciate how bad ebook typography still is by comparison, and how little text reflow adds to the reading experience (comparing well-formatted examples of each). What I've found lacking are mobile apps with full-featured PDF support, which makes it more frustrating than it should be. But apps will improve (the lastest release of Adobe Reader for iOS and Android now support much more of the functionality of the desktop counterparts).

Publishers frustrated by this have turned to fixed-layout variants of ePub and now KF8. It's pretty ironic, when PDF can accomplish most of the same functions with more interoperability, ease of creation, mature authoring tools, and infinite design options. Perhaps ideal would be an ebook format that can combine fixed-layout and reflowable sections, but that doesn't exist yet.

So I do consider PDF a sort of ebook format, or at least I appreciate it when the devices I use for reading to support it in some workable fashion. It's not going away any time soon, and serves many purposes that today's other digital formats cannot.
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