[FoRK] Back to... paper?

[Luis Villa]

On Nov 20, 2007 4:29 PM, Stephen D. Williams <sdw at lig.net> wrote:
> Don't you guys read everything I write? ;-)  (As I look over the 50
> messages I'm behind..., since I am packing / filtering / scanning to move.)

I don't think you did quite as good a job of selling the particular
piece of hardware as the other dude did :)

> And I'm very interested in the Kindle.  I sure wish someone would have
> thought of me as a beta tester....!  I would be a very good reviewer and
> tech tester.  It will be interesting to see how well I can convert my
> scan PDFs to something usable.

Probably not well:
http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/digital/otp/help/reflowable_text.html

I understand their motives for making the primary format reflowable,
but it seems like it should still be able to fall back on
non-reflowable text (aka pdfs) when no good option is available.

[That is, unless the book industry had a hand in the design. But that
would never happen, would it?]

Luis