Kindle DX-Graphite - using the device as an academic PDF reader

[alisaad07]

what is the best website to download textbooks that works on kindle dx

and thanks for uploading the video

[wsallen]

@alisaad07 Buying texts through Amazon.com is probably the best option, especially if you want to read them on the Kindle and on your computer using Kindle Reader for Windows or OSX. Then you can synchronize your notes and highlights. But of course, you have to buy them, and they have to be available from Amazon on Kindle, so the selection is limited. If you buy elsewhere they should be epub or PDF.

[terryrehabilitation]

This is great for clinic reference use for me, but we'll see how the annotations work for a journal club. I have old references that are scanned images essentially as pdfs, and those worked out perfectly, and could be zoomed or landscaped to see smaller details without problems. I just got one off CraigsList, and it's very easy to export the notations from it to my computer and print them out.

[Ucada]

Thanks for explaining this to me. I'm also thinking about buying it to read through articles as well.

[jowsmith100]

I think its big to have as a handheld device

[wsallen]

@jowsmith100 it's not very heavy though. The larger screen size makes reading non-text (i.e., non-zoomable files like PDF) much nicer.

[jowsmith100]

I find it very big. I wouldnt want something so big.

[jrwpork]

Very helpful video; thanks for making it.

[lukaszsw]

Thanks, that was quite informative as I want to use my kindle in the same way (as an academic pdf reader). Actually I was expecting mych more delay, what I saw was perfectly acceptable.

One thing - I've heard that openning a pdf file can take some time if it is big. Yet your open in seconds. I have a couple of books scanned, they are like 200 pages and 30-50mb large (after downsizing). Do you think they will make Kindle much slower than in the video?

[Norrin82]

So can someone tell me when you send your pdf file at name@free.kindle.com and they convert it and send it to you on your mail, can you read that converted pdf like regular kindle format with gadgets as changing the font size??

[joealexandra1110]

@Norrin82 My sister has the Kindle DX and she's using it for school too. She has all her textbooks in it. She scans each chapter every week sends these pages to name@free.kindle.com and all of the PDF scanned files are converted to a kindle file where she can adjust the font size, etc... I'm getting one for myself because I hate bringing all my textbooks to school.

[Norrin82]

@joealexandra1110 awesome thanks for the info, need to get one for sure ;)

[paganSlav]

thank you, your review helped a lot. I had some large files too and turning the screen landscape instead of portrait made it was yeasier to read))) love the kindle, but yeah-organisation is pretty awful, i try to organise mine by name but I have to rename everything while it's on the computer

[wsallen]

@paganSlav You may want to try the Kindle Collection Manager - best workaround available for now: colegate[dot]net

[NBismarck]

Great review, thanks a lot, man!

Your're answering exactly my questions.

Why is it so dam difficult to find a decent PDF e-reader?

Almost every paper in academics or business is in PDF!

So, is there an alternative with e-ink on the horizon?

[hikariUK]

this is an interesting post from a different viewpoint and I found this quite useful since I am writing a dissertation as well.