Kindle Formats

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Kindle Formats

By Evi Aryani

Nowadays more and more people are reading the eBook is no longer a physical book, because many eBooks offer the convenience and practical. The most popouler eBook reader today is the Amazon Kindle.

But there are few obstacles as you read eBooks with Amazon Kindle . If you have gained outside eBooks want to read it through Amazon and Kindle, You have to convert them into files that are available in Kindle (Kindle Formats). Amazon Kindle can display four types of file name extension. TXT, MOBI, AZW and PRC. Suppose if you have and want to read PDF eBooks on the Kindle then you must convert them into Kindle formats. MOBI.

If you follow the development of the Kindle from the beginning, you would still remember how difficult it is to convert PDF files to Kindle formats . You must pay the cost of file conversion services, although there are also free services but the conversion is not perfect.

In the old model of ...
... Kindle, a feature that is available is the ability to view PDF files in their original format. But if the size of the font / font PDF files are very small and difficult to read without zooming, you will find it difficult to read on the Kindle screen is smaller.
In other words on the old Kindle version, pdf will appear exactly as it appears on your computer screen no change.

Currently on the latest generation Kindle, Amazon has improved support for converting PDF into the Kindle formats by adding features such as magnifying the text, view documents in landscape mode, add notes and highlights, look for the meaning of certain words / search the dictionary, allows for text-to-speech, zooming and panning.

Version-version of the Kindle that has increased support for the PDF format is:

* Kindle DX
* Kindle 2011
* Kindle Touchscreen
* Kindle Fire
* Kindle is the latest generation of the next
But there is also the type of PDF files that can not be converted as follows:

* File the form of drawings, diagrams, tables, graphs and the like.
* Files that are in the password
* Files that are protected by DRM
* Files that the author added security. Such as files that can not be in the copy and paste.

Actually you can also read your PDF files by sending an email PDF file to your Kindle, but this way has some disadvantages, namely:

1. Usually conversion is less than perfect and messy.
2. Online converter still can not change the PDF file in a password with another word to PDF files that remain in the password can not be converted.
3. Your email has a limit in size to accommodate a PDF file.