I agree, Kindle is great for reading a book, not very usable for reference material. When I want to read a PDF on Kindle I send it to my Kindle account via email with subject "convert". It usually provides very good results. iPad is much better for manuals, I bought GoodReader application. It has a very good PDF reader and you can transfer files there over wifi, forget iTunes. Even download files from web using its own (simple) html browser, great for redbooks.
Marian Gasparovic IBM Slovakia On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > There seem to be several tools that convert PDFs to MOBI, have you tried all > and found them to be unsatisfactory? > > I have a Kindle (3), and to my thinking it is never going to be satisfactory > for reading technical manuals because of the speed of the E-ink display. > IMO reading these requires fast scrolling, zooming, paging, linking that > the current Kindle will just not handle. Its great for reading a > sequential book though. > > Reading PDFs on my EVO 4G is fine. Its huge compared to most phones, with > great resolution, but it can't compete in terms of usability with a printed > book or netbook or IPad. > > The IPad hardware looks great, but I'm waiting to get a good *open* Android > or Linux tablet. Based on CES this week, that should be real soon... > > Kirk Wolf > Dovetailed Technologies > http://dovetail.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
