Looks pretty sweet, hopefully it can do .pdfs in the future with a firmware update. Also, remove DRM, upgrade sound quality, and lower price in future iterations.
Unfortunately it can't do pdfs, html, jpg, doc files like the Sony Reader. You have to pay Amazon 10 cents to have it converted for the Kindle.
Basically you sent the files you want converted to Amazon via email attachment, then pay, then they send it back to you in the Kindle format. While 10 cents isn't expensive, it would be better if they just supported open formats like the competition.
Garnered from the amazon forums... You have to pay if you want it transfered to your kindle wirelessly, not if you do it yourself via usb. PDFs have to be converted to mobi format using freeware before then passing to amazon for conversion to kindle format. Conversion not great due to most pdf documents being too large a page size to fit on the paperback size kindle, especially if there are a lot of images.
Like any ebook reader, you're not going to be looking at a normal sized page - strip 'em down to plaintext with pdftohtml on an OS with a name ending in X or Windows with Cygwin installed and convert THAT to the format for your reader. The page formatting just gets in the way. Day one stuff, that.
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Alex @ Nov 21st 2007 1:07PM
Looks pretty sweet, hopefully it can do .pdfs in the future with a firmware update. Also, remove DRM, upgrade sound quality, and lower price in future iterations.
Leonard Nimrod @ Nov 22nd 2007 10:03AM
So you want it to do more for less. What a concept!
Pete @ Nov 21st 2007 1:37PM
I thought it could already do PDFs? Although I believe the only way to transfer them is by email, I may have my facts wrong...
Temple @ Nov 21st 2007 4:02PM
Unfortunately it can't do pdfs, html, jpg, doc files like the Sony Reader. You have to pay Amazon 10 cents to have it converted for the Kindle.
Basically you sent the files you want converted to Amazon via email attachment, then pay, then they send it back to you in the Kindle format. While 10 cents isn't expensive, it would be better if they just supported open formats like the competition.
More here.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200140600
Sky @ Nov 22nd 2007 3:35AM
Garnered from the amazon forums...
You have to pay if you want it transfered to your kindle wirelessly, not if you do it yourself via usb. PDFs have to be converted to mobi format using freeware before then passing to amazon for conversion to kindle format. Conversion not great due to most pdf documents being too large a page size to fit on the paperback size kindle, especially if there are a lot of images.
WooWoo @ Nov 22nd 2007 12:40PM
Like any ebook reader, you're not going to be looking at a normal sized page - strip 'em down to plaintext with pdftohtml on an OS with a name ending in X or Windows with Cygwin installed and convert THAT to the format for your reader. The page formatting just gets in the way. Day one stuff, that.