What is on Your Mind?

I don't own a kindle, but my sister does. The new kindle (and not the old one) understands plain pdf and txt, not just Proprietary Ebook Format With DRM And Remote Revocation©®™, so if I did get a reader I'd make it a kindle.

I have had a kindle for over a month. I got the small wi-fi only version. Right now it is loaded with Perl books. It's much easier to carry around than a stack of books. The e-ink screen is very easy on the eyes. When people see it they don't think that the screen is real. The Perl code in the books did not format well in normal mode so I rotated the text 90° and use it sideways.

Do you need to scroll the page to read the entire content or it fits into the screen?

If the content doesn't fit into the screen, I'll stick with my low cost m001 for now,
it's OK for reading pdf files in landscape (horizontal) mode without needing to reflow or reformat.

When you read an ebook (not a pdf), the content is dynamically reformatted as you read. It puts as much text as it can on the screen and calls that text a "page". You hit the "next page" or "previous page" to move around. Personally I would prefer to scroll but I don't believe it can.

But I have never read the instructions, I just hit buttons and found my own way around.

Sorry for not being clear. I mean, do you need to scroll from left to right, not up and down
(you need to do so, when the lines are long and don't fit into the screen).
Most of the time, when I convert a pdf to any ebook format, it looses it's formatting.
I tried the Kindle software on my Android device and I must admit, that the sample
chapters I tried look better, than the manually converted ebooks (I use calibre to convert the pdf files).

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Actually I know the answer, as far as the programming code is concerned:
everything fits into the screen and you just loose the formatting.
It would be interesting to know how it displays a graphical objects
(diagrams, histograms etc) when those don't fit into the screen.

I never scroll in any direction. As far as I know the kindle cannot scroll. The kindle seems to know when a line should kept intact. But if it doesn't have room, it wraps to the next line. This is why I rotated the kindle 90°, it reduces (but does not eliminate) the wrapping. I can also switch to a smaller font size to get more on the screen.

Pdf files are another story. I have a complete set of Solaris 10 pdf's in the kindle. The images just shrinks until everthing fits left to right. The pdf page breaks are ignored and the kindle re-paginates the document. The font is painfully small but legible in normal mode. It's much easier to read in rotated mode.

The larger kindle has enough real estate to handle any doc. After the price drops quite a bit more I probably upgrade.

Thanks for the info! A bigger display ( > 6") should be better for the pdf. Me too, I'll wait for a better price