Owen,
> I gotta a Kindle for Christmas!
Congratulations! The lump of coal in my sock gave me a blister ;-)
>
> So the question is for those of you with one of them: what are your
> favorite usages of the critter? Do you use PDFs? If so, how do you
> convert them? Do you use it mainly for manuals etc? Novels? Poetry?
> Music/Audibles?
I have DX and a "standard" 6-inch version of the Kindle and a couple versions
of the Sony e-readers. The DX is much better for pdf files with large print.
The Sony tends to do a better job of zooming in on pdf images but smashes
equations and matrices into a column on the left side. The Sonys' and the
smaller Kindle's software was recently updated to handle pdf files without
going through the hassle/expense of e-mailing them to your Kindle account. The
Sonys' DMR/authentication is a pain but the Kindles now accept pdf files copied
into the Documents directory from the machine's hard drive (it's recognized and
handled the same way as a USB drive).
I sometimes scan in documents to gif files then create an OO.org document by
pasting/resizing them, then exporting as a pdf file--which can then be copied
to the Kindle "drive". I have mp3 versions of The Feynman Lectures on Physics
(the red books) that make interesting listening when reading the scanned
version of the associated lecture (a *lot* of editorializing was edited out
during production of the hard copies; from the audio versions one can tell what
Feynman felt was important and what was included merely for completeness or the
current lines of thought on a given topic).
Just my $0.02,
Ross
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