I finally got round to ordering my Amazon Kindle, and it arrived yesterday. First impressions…

• It’s very light, and very nice to hold
• It’s much, much quicker than my Sony Reader,.
• The screen contrast seems better as well, making it easier to read in poor light that the Sony was.
• Emailing PDFs to it via your @free.kindle.com address works well
• The 6” inch ebook format PDF from SmallNews works well on the Kindle screen. The text could perhaps do with being one point larger, but that might just be my ageing eyes.

However, one big disappointment for me is that it doesn’t support PDF bookmarks, which makes it much harder to navigate around a PDF created by SmallNews. This is a major thing for me, so I am going to look into the possibility of SmallNews creating a Kindle native format edition.

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