If you’re such an avid fan of reading books via digital devices then you probably have heard and considered buying an Amazon Kindle e-book reader. But you’re held back by your friends’ comments or the internet’s reviews about the device’s lack for a PDF support – which is the most usual file type of your favorite e-books. Now, here’s to ease your worries away and clarify things out about kindle pdf reading.
The truth is, if you buy your own kindle now and you ought to choose the newest version of it which is the Amazon Kindle version 3, you won’t have any problems at all in reading your favorite kindle pdf e-books. The newest versions – including Kindle 2 and Kindle DX – of the Amazon device already have the built-in ability to support and read PDF files. All you need to do is plug in the USB connector to your device and connect it to your computer then copy your PDF e-book to the documents folder of the Kindle drive. Safely eject the drive, and then voila, you can now select and read it on your Kindle device.
But, things are different on Kindle’s first-generation device, the Kindle 1.
Kindle 1 doesn’t natively support PDF files. But, you can still read pdf e-books on your Kindle 1 device although requiring a little more effort on your part. Amazon – the maker of Kindle – offers a free conversion service that converts unsupported formats such as DOCX and PDF to a supported one like AZW, its own proprietary format. You will need to e-mail your PDF files to “name”@kindle.com for a wireless but paid delivery of the converted file, or “name”@free.kindle.com if you want to receive it in your e-mail address free of charge.
You can opt for manual conversions instead if you don’t want sending stuffs to Amazon.
You can use a software called MobiPocket Creator. This is a free PC software which converts PDF among others, to a Kindle-supported format. You just need to import your PDF file and then Build it to produce a converted version which has a .prc file extension. Then, you can now add it to your Kindle documents folder through the USB connector.
If you’re a Mac user, then you can use Stanza, which works pretty much the same as MobiPocket Creator.
