http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/04/27/convert-and-read-pdf-and-epub-on-amazon-kindle-2-with-savory/ Living Digitally and Electronically Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:43:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/04/27/convert-and-read-pdf-and-epub-on-amazon-kindle-2-with-savory/comment-page-1/#comment-607417 BendTech » Comparing Notes on eReaders/eBooks Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:36:21 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/?p=26415#comment-607417 [...] If that number sounds low to you (”40%? That’s less than half the space – ‘kinda like buying a book that only has text on every other page!”) you may be surprised to find it comes from the specs for the Kindle 2 ($299). Between the generous bezels and the spacious keyboard Amazon designed into the device, you’re you end up toting around a lot more hardware than you’re actually reading. But depending on your tastes, that may not be an important factor.  For me, however, the biggest issue with the Kindle is  how difficult it is to work with “open” content.  I like my content open and DRM-free, and the while the Kindle makes it easy to buy eBooks from Amazon, doing anything, like reading PDF or Word documents you already have. requires some problematic hoop-jumping. [...] [...] If that number sounds low to you (”40%? That’s less than half the space – ‘kinda like buying a book that only has text on every other page!”) you may be surprised to find it comes from the specs for the Kindle 2 ($299). Between the generous bezels and the spacious keyboard Amazon designed into the device, you’re you end up toting around a lot more hardware than you’re actually reading. But depending on your tastes, that may not be an important factor.  For me, however, the biggest issue with the Kindle is  how difficult it is to work with “open” content.  I like my content open and DRM-free, and the while the Kindle makes it easy to buy eBooks from Amazon, doing anything, like reading PDF or Word documents you already have. requires some problematic hoop-jumping. [...]

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