pdf files
We’ve gotten another question: how does the Kindle handle .pdf files?
Amazon says that
PDF conversion is experimental. The experimental category represents the features we are working on to enhance the Kindle experience even further. You can email your PDFs wirelessly to your Kindle. Due to PDF’s fixed layout format, some complex PDF files might not format correctly on your Kindle.
We here at KindleTips headquarters did some testing to see what this would look like. (the photos are fuzzy, but I hope you can get the idea! iphone camera + kindle is far from perfect.)
here’s a pdf of a book sent to Amazon’s Kindle converters: 
as you see, the table of contents didn’t come out quite right — but the text came out just fine.
We also tried converting the new york times best seller list, which comes as a text-heavy pdf with more complicated layouts. This did not come out so well:
As an alternative, Mike Elgan recommends using a free pdf-to-Word converter to convert your creatively formatted pdf to a word document; Amazon will convert those to Kindle format, making the process one step longer but entirely possible.
We haven’t tried any of these converters, but here’s a quick link to some google search results here for a free converter.
Let us know what your results look like!
