Comments on: Reading PDF documents in Kindle 2

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:30:20 +0000

Hi Melissa,

Indeed a 22 MB file may be too big, even you can transfer it to your Kindle, the load time of the PDF file will be very slow in your Kindle. One way to transfer this big file to your Kindle is to use the USB transfer method (i.e. just copy it from your PC to your Kindle, once connected with USB cable).

If the file is too big, on the other hand, you can split it into multiple smaller files and then send / transfer to your Kindle again. Assuming your PDF file is not password protected, you can “print” your PDF part by part to create new PDF files (e.g. page 1-20 to file1, page 21-40 to file2 etc.). To do this, you require Acrobat Writer, or freeware like PDF995, or PDFill.

Hope it helps.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:58:11 +0000

I am trying to e-mail a pdf document to my amazon kindle website to have transfered to my Kindle and apparently the file is too large to e-mail (it’s 22 MB). The e-mail was returned as undeliverable. How can I get around this?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:25:07 +0000

Hi Juca, glad that you have things working now. Enjoy your K2 !!

By: benjavi

benjavi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:52:00 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you

Was on the point of selling my K2 and spending $$ on the DX.

PDFRead did the trick, as the other methods you mentioned weren’t able to properly convert a pdf I have. Now I have a .prc that I can read in landscape mode. Image is perfect.

My opinion is this is the best way to convert a pdf to kindle without all the glitches other conversions produce.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:32:27 +0000

No, Malcolm, don’t think there is a good way to read PDF in portrait mode, other than getting the Kindle DX.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:28:59 +0000

Any suggestions for reading in portrait mode and increasing text size?

By: Gui Ambros

Gui Ambros — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:38:36 +0000

Awesome article, thanks a lot! I’ve been chasing information about Kindle’s support to PDF files for quite some time, and you just made my decision easier (to not wait for the DX) =)

Really appreciate. Thanks a lot!

By: Blue

Blue — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:18:33 +0000

Thanx …

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:44:03 +0000

Hi Blue,

Sorry I have not tried it and I don’t think it will work. So you may need to get a non-protect one, or “print” the protected PDF to another PDF without password …

Cheers,

By: Blue

Blue — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:19:55 +0000

Hello,

I’m trying to convert a password protected pdf to any format kindle 2 accepts . I’ve tried so many softwares ( PDFRead , MobiPocket Creator .. etc ) , they can not open the file , and I’m getting some errors instead ,,

Please note that the file contains text and images ..

P.S. The PDF file was purchased legally by myself , and I already have the password and can open in it in Adobe reader .

I would really appreciate your help in this issue ..

Regards,