Kindle

[atheneglaukopis]

Well, after two years of internal debate over whether it was worth buying a Kindle or not, Amazon finally lowered the price enough that I bought one without fuss this week, just in time for my Europe trip. I can see plenty of room for improvement, but its main virtue is the battery life. Both my laptop and iPod Touch have low battery lives, and I

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[afuchs]

Does it render PDF files well? The scanned ones?

[atheneglaukopis]

Haven't gotten to testing that feature yet. I'll let you know.

[afuchs]

Oh, please do. For me, that's the crucial feature.

[atheneglaukopis]

I just tested it, and it's not much worse than viewing on a computer screen. The text is clear, and you can rotate and enlarge text. You may only get a portion of a page on the screen at a time, but that's the case with laptops as well.

[afuchs]

Does it work that way with large scanned PDFs as well? (I mean the compilations of TIFF scans into a book, without OCR, just copies of original pages)

[atheneglaukopis]

No idea. I don't have any such files, and am not likely to acquire any soon. Sorry I can't help more!

[afuchs]

Many thanks!