robm321
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Mmmm good wine, a book and music... my cup overfloweth
Originally Posted by Uncle Erik /img/forum/go_quote.gif The K2 has caught my eye, as well. Do you have to buy all books from Amazon? Or can you upload PDF docs and read those? I have a number of books on PDF that I'd like to be able to read conveniently. Some I print out and bind at work, but those take up a lo of shelf space. Also, I'd like to scan documents into PDF and take them along. Can you do this? If so, I might have to put my order in. |
Originally Posted by kugino /img/forum/go_quote.gif there are actually many ways to get PDFs onto your kindle. amazon offers two ways - one that directly puts PDFs you send to amazon onto your kindle (they convert it) and another that emails the PDF to your kindle email address and then you manually put it onto the kindle. but, there are other ways to convert PDFs to kindle format - i'm only familiar with apps on the mac that do it. one is an app called calbre: calibre |
Originally Posted by rangen /img/forum/go_quote.gif Actually, one of the new features that's been announced for the Kindle DX, other than the size, and the iPhone-like auto-landscape-mode, is native PDF support. So no more conversions. Just, I imagine, copy the thing for free using USB, or pay Amazon a dime to sent it to your kindle wirelessly. Seems conceivable that the native PDF support might well end up in a software update for the older Kindles, but, as far as I know, they haven't announced anything like that. |