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A month after buying my first Kindle. I kindly recommend getting one. I'm catching up on a lot of science fiction these days, reading lots of scuba diving books, and some classic literature every now and then.
Now, it seems natural to have a Kindle book reader. The Kindle is not the most technically advanced device I own; but it is great for what it does, downloading, storing and reading books.
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The biggest problem, or annoyance, I've experienced with my Kindle is that many illustrations do not translate / format to Kindle format very well. I"m reading a Kindle book on fiance at the moment and the tables, charts, and other illustrations are nearly impossible to read.
Calibre isn't perfect and usually tecnical books are Pdf.
Epub is getting used more often (O'Reilly for one) and epub->awz3 is very good.
Equations, indeed, are always a problem.
But changing the Kindle from vertical view to the orizontal one, helps
Linux seems to have weird USB power saving features, my Kindle 3 only gets some charge before Linux powers down the USB port.
When the device is mounted, it doesn't get enough power, with this same hardware under Windows I don't get the message on the Kindle "currently your kindle is not... (2 Replies)