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I have a Kindle 2 and like it, but am mainly using it to read converted PDF's, so I was REALLY excited about the Kindle DX's touted ability to read PDF's natively. Well I just received my DX yesterday and after playing around with it a bit, here are my impressions regarding its PDF abilities (the ONLY reason I purchased it): On one hand it's pretty awesome to be able to read PDFs on the thing without the convoluted conversion and transfer process. PDFs are generally properly formatted, albeit on a smaller scale in portrait mode. Also now you can read PDFs that cannot be converted at all (hard to email a 45MB PDF file to Amazon for conversion, but just drop it into the DX and it's ready to go). Grayscale images look great. However there are several major problems with the PDF viewer - 1) Text can be myopia-inducingly small in portait view, and there's no way to zoom. 2) On landscape view, text is crisp and very readable ... BUT you only get to see, say, 1/3 to 1/2 of a page, and to get to the other parts of the page you press "next page" (instead of arrow down). In fact the PDF is in pseudo-continuous mode, meaning that every other screen is the bottom of one page and the top of another page. I say "pseudo" because you can't scroll up or down line by line, only by sections of the page ... which means that many images are broken in half and the only way to see them in full is to go back to portrait view. 3) As a corollary to #2, if there are columns of text, you have to hit "next page" and "previous page" several times to read all the text on one page in landscape mode. This is pretty annoying actually. 5) But the deal-breaker for me is probably going to be: can't highlight (underline) text or make annotations! Now, I do understand why this might be - many PDF's aren't formatted properly to say exactly where one line ends and the next one begins. But the best thing about the Kindle 2 for me was the fact that I could select/mark text, and have it ready to be reviewed, or cut/pasted into other files. When I read I *have* to be able to make annotations, whether with a pencil or otherwise. The best you can do on the DX (with PDF's) is bookmark the page. Not good enough : ( So unfortunately while I'd love to keep the DX and see all the diagrams and formatting in PDF's that don't convert or can't be converted to Kindle format, it's probably not worth [...]