The information out there makes it sound like you can view PDFs on the Kindle 2 e-book reader. This is not true.¹

So how do you get your PDFs on your Kindle?

In my experience both Lexcycle Stanza² and the Calibre App³ PDF conversions result in mangled, unreadable e-books.

The solution is Amazon.com offers an email to your Kindle service, [email protected] for a small fee (not quite so small if not in USA).

I just discovered if you send to your-kindle-email@free.kindle.com there is no charge as it’s sent back to the email address you sent it from, not directly to your Kindle.

Although Amazon.com calls PDF “an experimental file format”⁴ the results have all been great for me.

1. Kindle DX, the Kindle 2′s big cousin can handle (simple?) PDFs, but then you still can’t annotate them. [↩]
2. Stanza 1.0.0-beta18 build #1:413 [↩]
3. Calibre 0.6.43 [↩]
4. Open standards are experimental, please. [↩]