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#1 fjw70 Sep 22, 2009 14:30:02	Most of my reading these days is on the Kindle.  I love it and would actually read the DDI mags if I could get it on the Kindle.
#2 Dragon9 Sep 22, 2009 16:24:55	Unlikely... although there are readers out there that will display PDFs.  AFAIK, I think the newer versions of the Kindle can display PDFs (although you have to jump through some hoops to get them onto your Kindle).
#3 gwelty Sep 22, 2009 21:46:26	The Kindle DX can display pdfs natively (unlike the Kindle 2, which requires a conversion process to get pdfs to display). All you have to do is plug your Kindle into your computer with a mini USB cord, and then you can drag the pdfs over (like a flash drive). However, the Kindle DX is still not an ideal environment for reading DDI pdfs at the current time. What the DX does is to initially display pdfs in portrait format. Most pdfs are very readable this way. And if you want to 'zoom in', you turn the Kindle sideways, and it puts the pdf in landscape mode. That makes the pdf bigger, because it breaks the portrait layout up into two pages (top half and bottom half). Unfortunately, DDI pdfs are already formatted for landscape. This means that displaying them in landscape mode on a DX doesn't give you much magnification. The type is simply too small, and it's not a comfortable reading experience. I was really disappointed by this, although the DX is great for reading any other kind of pdf. (I've tried to use pdf software to reformat DDI pdfs into portrait mode, and then view them on the DX, but this doesn't work out too well. You end up having to flip between the left-hand and right-hand side of every page, which is aggravating.) At some point in the future Amazon may upgrade the pdf display software they are licensing from Adobe, in order to get better zooming capabilities. However, character sheets that are pdfs display great on the Kindle, as long as their original format is in portrait layout.
#4 fjw70 Sep 23, 2009 12:00:59	Unlikely... although there are readers out there that will display PDFs.  AFAIK, I think the newer versions of the Kindle can display PDFs (although you have to jump through some hoops to get them onto your Kindle). You can convert pdf to the Kindle format for the Kindle 2, but text heavy pdfs don't convert very well with automated software and I really don't have the time to clean them up.  Besides it is very inefficient for me and 1000 others to do the work when WotC could have one person do it for all of us.  A tech-savy intern could do 10x the job I could do in a fraction of the time (working for peanuts).  Heck I bet WotC could get a tech-savy fan to do the work for a free DDI subscription. The bottom line is WotC could very easily do this if they wanted to (IMO).
#5 tufrat Sep 24, 2009 9:41:57	This was asked at GenCon. Bill Slavicsek said that they (WotC) were looking at it, and that there were some issues to be overcome first. He did not explicitly commit to releasing or not releasing material on the Kindle.
#6 fjw70 Sep 24, 2009 10:06:16	Thanks.  That's the most positive news I've heard so far.
#7 arnvid2008 Sep 25, 2009 12:27:15	This was asked at GenCon. Bill Slavicsek said that they (WotC) were looking at it, and that there were some issues to be overcome first.  It probably has to do with copyright and intellectual property laws.   Very tricky stuff, you would probably need a corporate attorney like Paul S. Kemp to lay out all of the issues.