Jan
30
Don’t buy a Kindle – in case you want to read PDFs
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Some days ago, I received a Kindle 2. The device looked good and buttons and controls felt just fine.
Actually, I returned it today, since Amazon’s PDF conversion service is by no means able to convert more than trivial text.
Here is part of my input PDF, which I created using LaTeX:
And this is the formula part, that Amazon converted for Kindle as seen on the device:
Beside the ill-converted diacritical letters - ä converts to “a – the formula is now a useless string the characters.
In case you’d like to display mathematics/scientific text, don’t buy a Kindle.
In 60 days, I’ll give iPad a try. Since even iPhone – as MacOS X – displays good, but small, iPad will do it brilliant.