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Darren New wrote:
> I bought an Amazon Kindle. It's very nice. Feel free to ask me about it
> if you care. :-)
>
How well does it handle PDFs? Particularly PDFs with pictures, graphs,
equations and such? Also how easy/hard is it to download a PDF from the
web and transfer it to the Kindle?
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> I bought an Amazon Kindle. It's very nice. Feel free to ask me about it if
> you care. :-)
does it run Crysis while you listen to the Fifth Symphony by Beethoven?
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:38:14 -0700, Kevin Wampler wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> I bought an Amazon Kindle. It's very nice. Feel free to ask me about it
>> if you care. :-)
>>
>>
> How well does it handle PDFs? Particularly PDFs with pictures, graphs,
> equations and such? Also how easy/hard is it to download a PDF from the
> web and transfer it to the Kindle?
For the Nook, it handles them fairly well - I have loaded a couple PDFs
of Linux Format on it and it renders fairly well for full-page views, and
then reflows the text if you enlarge the font in order to actually be
able to read it.
I have run into a problem with some content-protected PDFs, but I'm not
yet sure why - I think the one I tried was just print restricted (Nook
doesn't have text-to-speech capabilities, which print restrictions can
interfere with I've heard) but it wouldn't open it properly.
Jim
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Kevin Wampler wrote:
> How well does it handle PDFs? Particularly PDFs with pictures, graphs,
> equations and such?
It seems to do just fine. The native format is apparently something like
HTML inside (the same as "mobi" format). However, there's also a PDF
interpreter that will draw PDFs exactly as presented (as far as I can tell).
Of course, modulo color. It's grayscale.
Now, the PDF is going to either fit the screen, or be some multiple
(including 100%) of the PDF with you having to awkwardly cursor around. But
it'll display OK. I scanned some travel book pages as a PDF and got maps
and stuff for when I was in Cologne last week.
If you want to send me a sample PDF to look at, I'm happy to do that.
I haven't tried any really complex PDFs, but I did do a couple of brochures
from the people I was meeting with, so it handles powerpoint-level
complexity just fine.
> Also how easy/hard is it to download a PDF from the
> web and transfer it to the Kindle?
Trivial. If you want the actual PDF, then plug in the Kindle as a USB drive
and copy it to K:\Documents.
If you want to convert a PDF into text (because, say, the PDF is mostly
text), then you email it to your Kindle's email address with "convert" in
the subject line, and amazon either charges you $0.15 to wirelessly zoop it
to your kindle, or amazon emails you a link to a .AMZ file which you can
click on and then copy into K:\Documents for free. There's a limit of 25
files at once (which you can zip up or attach separately) *per request*, but
you can bop off several requests and then download all the results.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Quoth the raven:
Need S'Mores!
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nemesis wrote:
> does it run Crysis while you listen to the Fifth Symphony by Beethoven?
It actually seems to be an amazingly slow CPU. But then, the battery goes
for a week or two.
But it'll play background music while you read, if you like.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Quoth the raven:
Need S'Mores!
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On 23-8-2010 22:57, Darren New wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> does it run Crysis while you listen to the Fifth Symphony by Beethoven?
>
> It actually seems to be an amazingly slow CPU. But then, the battery
> goes for a week or two.
>
> But it'll play background music while you read, if you like.
So you can have books with sound effects, neat.
<very quit, with a little noise of a trolley outside the room. Some
birdsong outside the window>
It was starting to end, after what seemed most of eternity to me.
I attempted to wriggle my toes, succeeded. I was sprawled there in a
hospital bed and my legs were done up in plaster casts, but they were
still mine.
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On 23/08/2010 9:56 PM, Darren New wrote:
> If you want to convert a PDF into text (because, say, the PDF is mostly
> text), then you email it to your Kindle's email address with "convert"
> in the subject line, and amazon either charges you $0.15 to wirelessly
> zoop it to your kindle, or amazon emails you a link to a .AMZ file which
> you can click on and then copy into K:\Documents for free. There's a
> limit of 25 files at once (which you can zip up or attach separately)
> *per request*, but you can bop off several requests and then download
> all the results.
Just a quick post in case you don't know about calibre
http://calibre-ebook.com/
It is free and converts all sorts of document types to lots of ebook
formats. I've got a Sony PRS-600 and my wife (the Luddite) has one too.
--
Best Regards,
Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> Just a quick post in case you don't know about calibre
> http://calibre-ebook.com/
> It is free and converts all sorts of document types to lots of ebook
> formats. I've got a Sony PRS-600 and my wife (the Luddite) has one too.
Thanks! I knew about this, but I'm not sure I realized it's free. This
will be helpful if it can convert PDFs to AMZ.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Quoth the raven:
Need S'Mores!
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andrel wrote:
> So you can have books with sound effects, neat.
Well, the hardware is there, yes. I don't think you can embed audio in books
yet. It's more like a really super primitive MP3 player built in. It's under
the "experimental" menu, along with a web browser that's good enough to do
mobile gmail, yahoo mail, and browse a few sites they have built-in
bookmarks for like wikipedia and the weather channel and stuff like that.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Quoth the raven:
Need S'Mores!
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>> So you can have books with sound effects, neat.
Oh, and it does audio books, of course. No idea what the battery is like for
that.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Quoth the raven:
Need S'Mores!
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