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Comment author: Metus 26 December 2013 08:43:40AM 3 points [-]

I recently bought an e-reader. I found that PDFs of technical books or scientific papers are quite small. Does anyone around here use e-readers to read technical material? If so, is there an easy way to have a better reading experience on a kindle or do I just have to deal with it?

Comment author: Document 17 January 2016 04:19:59PM *  0 points [-]

Double-dipping to add: Calibre recommends not using PDFs as your source format if at all avoidable.

I feel like I should emphasize that it's not just that the format is ill-suited to conversion, but that Calibre's conversion routine for it is particularly poor; I quit using it when I noticed that the output was frequently truncated early.

Better conversion options:

  • The Amazon Send to Kindle application's built-in conversion function
  • Opening in a PDF reader and copying and pasting into a word processor
  • Searching online for key text and seeing if you can find the document on a Web page; or, if you find the PDF online, saving Google's HTML-converted cached copy

All of those could potentially mess up equations and the like, though; so you might just have to deal with it or get a bigger device.

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