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Kindle 3 Videos: NYTimes Drama, Quick Glance, PDFs, Browser, Annotations
Here are some videos collected from Youtube on Kindle 3. All these video are less than 24 hours old. I found these videos are useful to get idea about Kindle 3 for which most people are still waiting:
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What Do You Need to Know Regarding PDF Support on Kindle 3?
The new Kindle has enhanced PDF support. What does it mean to such enhanced support. In short, new Kindle now supports dictionary lookup, notes, and highlights. Please read here the details:
- You can read any PDF file without loosing original formatting
- Password protected PDFs are now supported
- The white margins of PDFs are automatically cropped for maximum viewing
- You can magnify PDFs by viewing them in landscape mode
- You can zoom into any area of a PDF up to 300% and pan (by pressing down shift button and 5-way controller) to easily view small print and detailed tables and graphics
- You More >
How to Pan & Zoom PDFs on Kindle
If you’re not sure how pan & zoom works with new software updates on Kindle, try it by first transferring a PDF document on Kindle. Now open the PDF file. Once you’re on a page of the PDF document follow the steps:
- Press Aa button on the keyboard
- You’ll see the Font Size menu, and a row at the top to choose zoom percentage. The zoom options are: Fit to screen, 150%, 200%, 300%, Actual size
- For example, if you choose 200% you’ll see a zoom box on the screen.
- Position the zoom box over the section you’d like to view using the 5-way controller and press to select.
- Now use 5-way controller to More >
How to Pan & Zoom PDFs on Kindle
If you’re not sure how pan & zoom works with new software updates on Kindle, try it by first transferring a PDF document on Kindle. Now open the PDF file. Once you’re on a page of the PDF document follow the steps:
- Press Aa button on the keyboard
- You’ll see the Font Size menu, and a row at the top to choose zoom percentage. The zoom options are: Fit to screen, 150%, 200%, 300%, Actual size
- For example, if you choose 200% you’ll see a zoom box on the screen.
- Position the zoom box over the section you’d like to view using the 5-way controller and press to select.
- Now use 5-way controller to More >
PDFs on Nook
This is from Gizmodo regarding how PDFs shows up on nook. Remember, recently amazon also released a software update for kindle that makes PDFs viewable on kindle but on kindle it doesn’t reflow texts. Nook rather offer text reflow of PDFs. Gizmodo has an update on this feature comparing kindle versus nook:
- PDFs are supported natively and use Adobe’s mobile PDF system
- You can’t zoom, the only option is to change the font size
- Unlike the kindle, which only offer a screen rotation option, nook can re-flowing the text and adjust the picture size.
- PDFs containing anything but text look pretty More >
Now You Can Download PDFs from Kindle DX Browser with Hacks
You can directly download e-books from amazon kindle store over Whispernet. And it costs money to amazon. There are some basic web browsing facilities that come with your kindle. Amazon didn’t put any option to directly download books from any other sources since it would be then at the cost of amazon. However people are constantly searching ways to hack kindle to get around the limitation imposed by amazon. A more recent one is the download capability of PDF books directly onto kindle dx by Nirmal Patel. kindle dx is a decent device to read PDF books even though amazon doesn’t sell PDF More >
Is Kindle DX Really Good for PDF e-books?
Okay, amazon has released kindle dx with native PDF support targeting not only textbooks but also the people who have huge collection PDF e-books or technical documents. It’s true that PDF support is the most sort-after feature on an e-book device; but the size of the screen has so far been lacking.
Now DX is out; and people are putting forward reviews on the internet. Here is some reviews from amazon review page about kindle dx‘s PDF support:
The PDF reader works as advertised, and is extremely convenient. PDF documents appear on the DX exactly as they do on a computer screen. Moreover, you More >
