I've found the smaller Kindle near useless for technical books such as Wrox/Apress in PDF format but you can easily convert to a more reader friendly format using the Mobipocket software: http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/default.asp?Language=EN <http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/default.asp?Language=EN>Also a lot of the new releases are available from Amazon in Kindle format natively: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-SharePoint-2010-Administration-ebook/dp/B003TFE8T2/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&m=A24IB90LPZJ0BS&s=digital-text&qid=1283477369&sr=1-5 <http://www.amazon.com/Professional-SharePoint-2010-Administration-ebook/dp/B003TFE8T2/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&m=A24IB90LPZJ0BS&s=digital-text&qid=1283477369&sr=1-5>Given the shipping times and costs of the physical copies I wouldn't go back, being able to do a text search across all books on the device can be really handy also.
Just my 2c Simon On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:10 PM, silky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On the DX, the writing is quite small (on an A4 page) if you don't zoom > in. > > > > Prior to the DX I had a Sony PRS505, which is about the same size as the > kindle > > (not sure if the screen resolution is lower or higher) and I found that > images and > > tables would just be cropped. Text, obviously, could be reflowed. Some > items (like > > text in call out boxes etc) would also be truncated. Obviously the Sony > and the Kindle > > have different PDF rendering engines, so this might not be a problem on > the Kindle. > > However it was my primary motivation for getting the DX, as the Sony was > fine for > > reading books/newspapers/magazines. > > Yes I see. Okay, perhaps a try-before-you-buy is in order. Not > planning on getting it for a while I guess anyway. Thanks for your > comments. > > > > Cheers > > Ken > > > -- > silky > > http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ > > "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy > of being this signature." >
