Kindle and bitsavers?

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, JP Hindin wrote: One problem I've had with PDFs on the Kindle is that when it zooms it tends to go for the width of the document. Sometimes the last line or two of text get zoomed off the screen, with no indication that it's done so. There is another PDF-reading mode that involves panning a window around the document. In that mode, you can find the bits lost during the zoom, but it's kind of annoying. For your own documents or things for which you have text, it's possible to find software to convert the file into the .MOBI text format understood natively by the Kindle (a book you buy from Amazon is, as I understand it, a .MOBI that's been encrypted with your Kindle's serial number). I've been using Calibre when I go that route. I've had good luck making .MOBIs with Calibre, but the .MOBI format doesn't seem to handle combining Unicode diacritical marks (well, at least Calibre's .MOBI reader doesn't; I haven't actully pushed one down to the Kindle to look at it, although I have seen the Kindle botch diacritics in book titles and author names), so I still have to go the .PDF route when I need those. I've had the best luck making .PDFs for the Kindle on a 3x4 page, but even then I run into cases where a line gets lost on the bottom if there are a lot of long words leaving the right margin especially ragged. I guess I need to find a word processor that does a better job of hyphenating things... I find that my Kindle either crashes or I have to reset it about once a month. -- roger ivie rivie at ridgenet.net