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Kindle: PDF support, but…

Sometimes I read PDFs on the Kindle. The Kindle does format documents laid out for standard size pages, but the body fonts can be small. Hard on the eyes, especially in low light.

Here’s an example with Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel.

Producing OSS in PDF on Kindle

The resolution of the original image is actually too low to render the body font readable when shown actual size. Perhaps a specially formatted PDF would be okay.

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