What is on Your Mind?

I'm not able to modify the font size of the pdf files in Kindle
(I'm new to Kindle, so there might be some option that I don't know).

So, unfortunately no reflow (like Adobe Acrobat Reader for WM, for instance),
or at least, not for now.

I can only select an area (not a text, just like when you select an area of an image to crop, for example)
and increase its size and that, of course, is no an option for me.

The text is perfectly readable after the conversion to azw (the Amazon Kindle format),
but you loose some formatting: some programming code, for example,
might be not easy to read (long SQL statements and result sets, for instance).

Some images (like diagrams) could also the difficult to read,
but the plain text is perfectly readable after the conversion
and no further modification is needed.

Do not own a kindle nor do I ever intend to buy one.

Is it specifically the Kindle that you object to? Because it's proprietary? Because of Amazon's control? Privacy?

Or do you object to ereaders (Sony Reader, Nook, etc.) in general?

No. I have nothing against the Kindle. I read ebooks on my computer. Personally, I do not see the need for an ebook of any brand. I would rather get a smart phone that lets me read ebooks. That way I have a device that serves more than one purpose.

My wife wanted one so we got one. Personally I'm not entirely happy with the lack of control that comes with the platform - being able to read ePub content would have been nice, for instance, likewise being able to read arbitrary HTML or PDF content loaded via card slot or LAN (you can load PDFs on the current Kindle, but you have to send them via email... it's pretty convenient, but I do tend to favor a more direct approach)

In particular, personally, I wouldn't be satisfied with being unable to load a bunch of stuff from Project Gutenberg. (They have HTML-formatted stuff these days, right?) Converting to PDF is far from ideal because it forces formatting choices - I haven't looked through the Amazon store enough to know how many public domain titles are available for free, as they (mostly*) should be.

(* "mostly" because there is value in a good edition, especially an illustrated or carefully formatted edition...)

I can plug my kindle into a Window computer and it mounts the kindle like it is a USD thumb drive. Then I copied my pdf file to the kindle, "ejected" it and my pdf's were there. Ironically, I not know how to email a pdf to my kindle. I'm a bit taken aback to learn that such a thing is possible. I hope my kindle does not start getting spam pdf's.

I don't know if this is a new Kindle/old Kindle thing but my understanding was that email was the only way... Don't know, really.

As for email - you have to whitelist sender addresses, so at the very least someone hoping to spam you would need to get the sender address right. This was actually a challenge for us the first time around, we didn't know you had to whitelist the sender address, so our attempts to send docs over just failed.