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RE: $299 Kindle: Great, now make it read PDF!

To mlongue1,
Netbooks are great but to get the 24/7 wireless on them as the Kindle has (along with its 'experimental' web browser, which I use frequently), it would cost you an additional $720 per year at $60/month for 24/7 wireless.

To Jason,
The cost of sending a PDF to your Kindle 2 is now 15c per file per megabyte and an add'l 15c per megabyte above that, rounded up. Some PDFs are very large.
You can convert it yourself though with free utilities like MobiPocket Creator (Windows) or Calibre or Stanza.

I'm totally with you about native PDF support for the K2 now since every other 5" to 6" e-reader can do that now with the proper licensing from Apple. We also know the Kindle can autorotate when zooming in on images.

The PDF readability would be terrible though unless it does rotate (but why not?)

And as for your fit about getting the Kindle late, many of us write blogs and are looking for in-depth reviews, as the first ones were seldom in-depth.

I'd like to read your take on this in detail. I did get one and enjoy the DX well beyond my expectations but I don't recommend it unless people don't mind the larger size. I now use my Kindle 2 only when out on the streets because it's so nicely portable and not likely to draw undue attention when I bring it out to read while waiting here and there.

- Andrys
kindlworld.blogspot.com

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