: Re: Reading PDFs on Kindle device I have many interesting books and documents in PDF format. Can I read PDFs on Kindle in comfortable way? My concern is, that PDFs are adapted to the print page

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PDF is a format that contains many ways to get something displayed on your screen. Some of them allow for better conversions and should be very readable on a Kindle after conversion (some ebook-readers allow for re-wrapping of PDF data, I have not read yet that any Kindle can do that).

Other PDF files are composed of images of pages. Most often consisting of scans.
Conversion of such files to another format is cumbersome at the least and requireds OCR on the images that are often poor quality JPEG files.

A third even more difficult variant is where the text in the PDF is not linear, this often happens in documents that have more than one column mode, and in PDF files specifically mangled to have the characters placed in a random order (each with specific positioning). Both make it impossible to cut-and-paste from without hassle. (Highlighting something for cutting is an quick way to recognize such files). This group of files needs special processing

the multi-column ones can be more easily reordered programmatically (by analysing the limited number of horizontal screen positions) and after that can be converted.
the mangled files can be reordered as well, but this is more difficult. As an alternative to that I have successfully rendered these files in high resolution by printing them to multi-page TIFF files then used OCR on those to generate convertable text.

Knowing all that, I think you will find that converted text are most easily read on your Kindle. Non converted or convertible PDF files require scrolling, which I find irritating for anything more than a few pages.

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