tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22123940759742230852012-03-19T06:38:04.257-07:00John Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17650587464630460135noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212394075974223085.post-27384408402142456892012-03-19T05:21:00.004-07:002012-03-19T06:36:17.710-07:00A benefit of the Amazon Kindle for me is the ability to read outdoors even in bright sunshine. Whereas the screen of a laptop or ipod is very hard to use outdoors, with a Kindle it is fine even on a bright day. <div><br /></div><div>Like many people most of the documents I read are either PDF or Word format. There is built-in support for PDF but in practice it does not give a comfortable reading experience. You can of course rotate the screen to give maximum width, but in most PDFs I read, from academic journals, the font size is too small. You can zoom to part of the screen but then navigation is difficult. Also, a minor point, there is a boundary area between each PDF page that needs an extra scroll click forward.</div><div><br /></div><div>The answer would be to flow the PDF text into a Kindle-style document, but it would only be viable if easy to do, and ideally doable in batches.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2212394075974223085-2738440840214245689?l=historia-jp.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>John Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17650587464630460135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212394075974223085.post-75843232580016300642007-09-08T23:44:00.000-07:002007-09-08T23:49:28.315-07:00<br /> <div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>New academic new, new venture! My first try at blogging. I live in England and work as a university teacher of history. My wife and I have two children, a boy aged nine and a girl aged six.</div><br /> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2212394075974223085-7584323258001630064?l=historia-jp.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>John Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17650587464630460135noreply@blogger.com0