Technical pdfs on normal sized readers is pointless (I have one, I've tried it).
First you need a much larger screen. An A4 page at 5 inches is unreadable whereas a quarter size (landscape) is too little text between redraws.
Even if you get an iliad or some larger screened device PDFs are still a bad match. Thats because again the screen redraw. Reading a technical PDF isn't the same as reading a novel, you (or at least I) skip around at lot, skip code sections or want to go back.
Basically e-ink displays until they get the redraw below the perceptible level have only one acceptable use. Reading all the text sequentially where there's no formatting to get in the way of reflowing and resizing the text.
I don't have any issues reading technical stuff (Apple framework docs, random Cocoa/ObjC ebooks, etc) on my Kindle. Its only a minor irritation for code; Its still a fixed width and I have my font size fairly small, so theres not a huge loss in formatting. And hey, how often do you really read code written by others thats exactly how you like it?
Presumably part of the conversion process to the kindle's format is re-flowing the text. Certainly from what you're saying its happening somewhere in the process as otherwise the formatting would be perfect.
Native support for pdf displays the pdf as it requests same as it would appear on your computer. This is basically the point of postscript/pdf. All you can do is zoom in/out and pan you can't reflow it or break lines/pages differently.
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Technical pdfs on normal sized readers is pointless (I have one, I've tried it).
First you need a much larger screen. An A4 page at 5 inches is unreadable whereas a quarter size (landscape) is too little text between redraws.
Even if you get an iliad or some larger screened device PDFs are still a bad match. Thats because again the screen redraw. Reading a technical PDF isn't the same as reading a novel, you (or at least I) skip around at lot, skip code sections or want to go back.
Basically e-ink displays until they get the redraw below the perceptible level have only one acceptable use. Reading all the text sequentially where there's no formatting to get in the way of reflowing and resizing the text.
I don't have any issues reading technical stuff (Apple framework docs, random Cocoa/ObjC ebooks, etc) on my Kindle. Its only a minor irritation for code; Its still a fixed width and I have my font size fairly small, so theres not a huge loss in formatting. And hey, how often do you really read code written by others thats exactly how you like it?
Presumably part of the conversion process to the kindle's format is re-flowing the text. Certainly from what you're saying its happening somewhere in the process as otherwise the formatting would be perfect.
Native support for pdf displays the pdf as it requests same as it would appear on your computer. This is basically the point of postscript/pdf. All you can do is zoom in/out and pan you can't reflow it or break lines/pages differently.