I've been playing about with my new Kindle. Some of the pdfs from places like www.archive.org are perfectly fine while others won't work. I think the pdfs need to be 'flattened', but I don't have the full version of Adobe to do it. Does that sound plausible?
In other news, archive.org does a natty tool to embed on web pages. Here's a bit from Burnet's OCT of Plato (vol. 3 - one of the pdfs that my Kindle won't handle, incidentally):
Click to make it full screen and then browse away.
And here, for those coming to the Thursday seminar this term, is Mutschmann's Teubner of Sextus Empiricus PH II:
And here, for those coming to the Thursday seminar this term, is Mutschmann's Teubner of Sextus Empiricus PH II:
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Hello. I was intrigued by this because I've not had to flatten pdfs, but when I went to the Open library page for the Plato it seems to have a .mobi option already there
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23324369M/Platonis_opera. So it may be that someone's done the work for you on that one, if you don't mind it's being a slightly different file on your computer from on your kindle. The problem is how much you trust the OCR, and whether anyone's going to have proof-read it. You might be better off with your own eyes rather than the eyes of some computer.
I use PDF X-Change to make, view, and change PDFs because it's not that expensive compared with full Adobe Acrobat and it lets me do lots of things like adding bookmarks which I can't do in Reader. It does have an option to Flatten the file, but I've not tried it.
Bravo for exploring kindle work possibilities -- I haven't got round to this yet myself.
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