I bit the bullet and bought an Apple iPad, and bought a $1 PDF reader. Reads IBM manuals just fine, including PDF bookmarks (called OutLine in the particular reader I installed. I didn't get the Kindle DX for exactly your reasons.
Pros: - readable size, and you can zoom the full page display to get rid of the blank margins and still have a full page displayed, or zoom a lot and get one paragraph or diagram. - personal preference: I like the touch screen for paging and zooming - storage capacity of more manuals than I'll probably download - in the several thousand range - easier to carry than a laptop Cons: - spendy little sucker - I can print a lot of manuals for the same cost. - tied to the iTunes interface - somewhat clunky IMHO - not upgradable - get the size right the first time. I have the 32GB, probably could have gotten away with the 16 GB for z/OS library only. - eyes get tired after a couple of continuous viewing hours - 10 hour battery life - not so viewable in the sun - at the edge of being too heavy for long term viewing; I wish it was lighter, but the weight is not offensive. If you want further information, I'd be delighted to talk with you directly. David Purdy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 4:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook) I bought a Kindle DX ebook reader. One reason being that I wanted to read IBM manuals while travelling. The Kindle displays the PDFs nicely but lacks the possibility to jump from the TOC or links. For that reason and because other ebook formats, such as MOBI, have other advantages, I'm looking for a way to transform IBM manuals into the MOBI format. So far my experiments in transforming from PDF to MOBI did not show satisfactory results. I'm hoping that HTML for MOBI would yield in better results. Does anyone know if IBM manuals are available in HTML format? I'm not thinking about the format show by the Library Server which is split into too many small pages. I'm think about the manual as one large HTML file or possibly one HTML file per chapter. Any other suggestions are welcome as well. -- Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE AG ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
