Kindle and bitsavers?

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 09:01, Tom Uban <uban at ubanproductions.com> wrote: I have a 6-inch Kindle; while it does read PDFs well, the small screen makes reading standard Letter sized documents a bit of a hassle to read. Either it's eye-killingly small or you have to scroll all over the place. I don't know if any of the documents on Bitsavers are in a format that can be easily converted, but any document that is fairly simple HTML with inline pictures can easily be converted using various tools (Calibre) into .mobi, which the Kindle accepts natively, and you can read it as any e-book with your preference of font, orientation, etc etc. For my own documents, I have played a little with reformatting my LaTeX documents to generate PDFs with smaller page size (ebooks do not display math as far as I can tell). ISTR that decoding a large page in a PDF can be quite slow and slow to scroll, too. I think (non-e) paper still wins on this one. The kindle can be propped up against something on your workbench and not take up space for a keyboard. But the small screen is a challenge. The DX is one solution. Maybe the various pads will be better for these tasks; faster cpus and touchscreens will help. Joe. -- Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem