topic Is the Kindle better than the PRS-650 for PDF documents? in eReaders https://community.sony.ua/t5/ereaders/is-the-kindle-better-than-the-prs-650-for-pdf-documents/m-p/191536#M317 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Perhaps a somewhat inflammatory question for a Sony forum.</P><P></P><P>At the risk of being moderated, however, I would concede that currently the Kindle IS better for PDF documents than the Sony PRS-650. I bought my PRS-650 in September, and did post some questions regarding the fact that I had some PDFs which would not open. These were confidential, Visa specification PDFs, so I cannot distribute them for testing.</P><P></P><P>I did, however, try the same PDF document that shows "Invalid Page" on my PRS-650, on a friend's new Kindle that he got for Christmas. It works on his Kindle. I was, quite simply, gutted. The document is a PDF v1.6 document.</P><P></P><P>In fairness, I see that the Sony reader just uses Adobe Reader software. But surely there must be an update which could fix this issue?</P><P></P><P>Come on Sony - your hardware is better with the touchscreen - and I can live without network connectivity. But not being able to read some PDFs is unforgiveable - particularly when the cheaper (and apparently inferior for PDFs) Kindle can do so perfectly well.</P><P></P><P>JW</P><P></P><P>Message was edited by: Dublevay</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:07:17 GMT Dublevay 2011-01-10T11:07:17Z Is the Kindle better than the PRS-650 for PDF documents? https://community.sony.ua/t5/ereaders/is-the-kindle-better-than-the-prs-650-for-pdf-documents/m-p/191536#M317 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Perhaps a somewhat inflammatory question for a Sony forum.</P><P></P><P>At the risk of being moderated, however, I would concede that currently the Kindle IS better for PDF documents than the Sony PRS-650. I bought my PRS-650 in September, and did post some questions regarding the fact that I had some PDFs which would not open. These were confidential, Visa specification PDFs, so I cannot distribute them for testing.</P><P></P><P>I did, however, try the same PDF document that shows "Invalid Page" on my PRS-650, on a friend's new Kindle that he got for Christmas. It works on his Kindle. I was, quite simply, gutted. The document is a PDF v1.6 document.</P><P></P><P>In fairness, I see that the Sony reader just uses Adobe Reader software. But surely there must be an update which could fix this issue?</P><P></P><P>Come on Sony - your hardware is better with the touchscreen - and I can live without network connectivity. But not being able to read some PDFs is unforgiveable - particularly when the cheaper (and apparently inferior for PDFs) Kindle can do so perfectly well.</P><P></P><P>JW</P><P></P><P>Message was edited by: Dublevay</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:07:17 GMT https://community.sony.ua/t5/ereaders/is-the-kindle-better-than-the-prs-650-for-pdf-documents/m-p/191536#M317 Dublevay 2011-01-10T11:07:17Z