Re: Kindle for PC Beta (Program for Windows)

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In article <op.u28gubnuhswpfo@dell3100>,
Esra Sdrawkcab <ad...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:15:39 -0000, John Hatpin
> <RemoveThi...@gmailandthistoo.com> wrote:
>
> > mike muth wrote:
> >
> >> Amazon.com has just made available a Kindle reader program for the PC
> >> (Kindle for PC Beta).
> >>
> >> http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/####?docId=1000426311
> >
> > Don't know where your hashes came from; the URL should be:
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000426311
>
> Whatever happened to PDF (or plain ASCII for that matter)?

Too hard to change behind our backs.

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In article <he49f8$qmh$2...@news.eternal-september.org>,
Jesper Lauridsen <uselastname...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2009-11-11, Bob Ward <bob...@email.com> wrote:
> >
> > Despite Hatpin's vague, unspecified statement that PDFss are
> > problematic, I've found them to be very useful in presenting a
> > document that can be read as designed on jut about any platform, and
> > there is certainly a large supply of free books to choose from.
>
> A PDF file is designed for printing - not screen reading. For good
> screen reading you need a format that allows the text to formatted on
> the fly, according to the geometry of the screen and the font size used.

And if it must be PDF, at least make it one shaped like a screen (aka
4:3 or 8:5 landscape) not like a sheet of notebook paper (aka 0.75 or so
portrait), with the text sized so it's legible if the page fills the
screen.

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