soapalchemist said:not often you find a male author who can create great female characters.
Vice versa may also be true.
Sue Townsend and Adrian Mole sprang immediately to mind.
soapalchemist said:not often you find a male author who can create great female characters.
Vice versa may also be true.
mark68 said:I'm thinking of getting an ebook reader but I'm not sure if they do what I need. I have mainly PDF text books and magazines that contain images and diagrams and would like to be able to read them when travelling without having to take my laptop with me. Does a kindle or similar device convert a PDF into text and still display images or are they limited to displaying novels that are text only? I realise an ipad type tablet would do the job but I don't want to spend out that sort of money and find I only need it for reading books if a kindle type device would do the job just as well. Do these ebook readers display PDFs intact with images?
sjedwardz said:I'd agree with the pdf conversion, calibre is an excellent piece of software but all pdfs I've converted, and that includes the amazon service have been crap, and pretty much unreadable.
I tried it with a magazine once and it was truly awful! In the kindle defence it was never designed for that, tablets are much better, but then not as good in direct light and are power hungry fiends.
So you have to decide what you want to do with them before buying.
mark68 said:I'm thinking of getting an ebook reader but I'm not sure if they do what I need. I have mainly PDF text books and magazines that contain images and diagrams and would like to be able to read them when travelling without having to take my laptop with me.
shanky887614 said:i should have mentioned that really
you cant zoom in on a kindle
so one pdf page becomes one kindle page
if you only have pdf's your better off with a tablet or if you have only short ones a smartphone works as well
didn't realize it was all e readers that messed up pdf's though, i thought it was just the kindle
Yellow Jim said:As others have said, both Amazon's pdf conversion and Calibre's is pretty poor if figures are included. However, you can view native pdfs either full screen or zoom in and scroll around. It's not ideal and I wouldn't recommend a Kindle for heavy pdf usage, but in a pinch it does work.
Yellow Jim said:shanky887614 said:i should have mentioned that really
you cant zoom in on a kindle
so one pdf page becomes one kindle page
if you only have pdf's your better off with a tablet or if you have only short ones a smartphone works as well
didn't realize it was all e readers that messed up pdf's though, i thought it was just the kindle
You're a font of misinformation. You can zoom in on a Kindle to read pdfs.
As others have said, both Amazon's pdf conversion and Calibre's is pretty poor if figures are included. However, you can view native pdfs either full screen or zoom in and scroll around. It's not ideal and I wouldn't recommend a Kindle for heavy pdf usage, but in a pinch it does work.
shanky887614 said:Yellow Jim said:shanky887614 said:i should have mentioned that really
you cant zoom in on a kindle
so one pdf page becomes one kindle page
if you only have pdf's your better off with a tablet or if you have only short ones a smartphone works as well
didn't realize it was all e readers that messed up pdf's though, i thought it was just the kindle
You're a font of misinformation. You can zoom in on a Kindle to read pdfs.
As others have said, both Amazon's pdf conversion and Calibre's is pretty poor if figures are included. However, you can view native pdfs either full screen or zoom in and scroll around. It's not ideal and I wouldn't recommend a Kindle for heavy pdf usage, but in a pinch it does work.
how? never figured out how to
pedro083 said:shanky887614 said:Yellow Jim said:shanky887614 said:i should have mentioned that really
you cant zoom in on a kindle
so one pdf page becomes one kindle page
(works on normal books though)
if you only have pdf's your better off with a tablet or if you have only short ones a smartphone works as well
didn't realize it was all e readers that messed up pdf's though, i thought it was just the kindle
You're a font of misinformation. You can zoom in on a Kindle to read pdfs.
As others have said, both Amazon's pdf conversion and Calibre's is pretty poor if figures are included. However, you can view native pdfs either full screen or zoom in and scroll around. It's not ideal and I wouldn't recommend a Kindle for heavy pdf usage, but in a pinch it does work.
how? never figured out how to
click on the Aa button (where you can choose your text size/portrait-landscape mode)
then choose the % you want to zoom into
shanky887614 said:didnt work for me. at least not on pdf files
Yellow Jim said:shanky887614 said:didnt work for me. at least not on pdf files
What do you mean "at least not on pdf files"? PDFs are the only files that the zoom option is available for. The option isn't there for the Kindle's own format (it's not required), so it can't have worked for you on any other file type.