So I got myself a Kindle (given that I only read books once, the negatives don't really bother me, and the browser lets you read blogs without paying). One of the first things I did was ask the built in 'NowNow' service about whether the Kindle would support PDF, and got back the following highly-bitchy answer:
"Not directly, you need to convert the files
Unfortunately, none of us answering your questions has ever seen or used a Kindle. We're not Kindle customer service representatives and we don't have any special information about how to use one or any of its features. NowNow never even bothered to tell us that we'd be answering questions from Kindle users. So unfortunately, I don't think you're going to find much help here with your problem. Your best bet is to try to contact Amazon's customer service (which is not us) and maybe someone there will know more about it:
[...]
Sorry I can't help. I checked through the user guide and I saw nothing about disabling the buttons. I tried, but I'm sorry they haven't given us a way to answer this type of question.
Good luck!!"
(This is not to pick on NowNow - the rest of the answers provided were great, and pointed me in the direction of a PDF to .mobi converter).
3 comments:
But do you like your Kindle other than the tech support?
Bitchy or not, it's true.
NowNow has been around for a long time now, and we (by we, I mean the people who answer the questions through Amazon Mechanical Turk) just now found out that it's available from the Kindle.
If it came off rude, some people are a bit frustrated, since Amazon also neglected to put in the user manual that if you ask a question, it's best to vote on the answers (Great, Good, Lame, or Junk), because that's how the "staff" gets paid. A lot of people don't seem to be aware of that, so the people answering the questions aren't getting paid.
(Pay for the questions, by the way, is normally 3 cents per; every week, the people with the most Great votes earn a bonus of up to $100.)
hope I can get a demo of it in the office next week :)
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