3 Answers2025-07-03
I’m pretty much just a reader looking to read my Kindle books on my tablet using the PDF app, so this question really resonates with me. Unfortunately, the DRM protection of Kindle books makes it extremely difficult to convert them to PDF. Amazon’s proprietary book format and the Kindle reading apps for iPad, etc. do not allow users to print or save to PDF. Using screenshots of individual pages would be extremely tedious and likely to be in contravention of copyright laws as well.
Instead of breaking the law, I work around it by checking the author’s website for free PDF samples or companion files, buying books in DRM-free ePUB format from retailers like Leanpub, borrowing PDF e-books from libraries that offer them through services like OverDrive, and checking if a classic book is already available in PDF format on sites like Project Gutenberg in various formats. Buying and supporting authors and retailers who sell DRM-free e-books is just one way to encourage authors to continue producing stories for us to read.
3 Answers2025-06-05
I love my e-reader but I sometimes miss the feeling of real paper under my fingers. It is easy enough to print a PDF from your Kindle if the eBook is in a DRM-free PDF format. You would need to connect your Kindle to a computer and find the PDF in the documents folder on your Kindle and print it from there. eBooks that are in Kindle book format (e.g. for purchase from Amazon.com) with DRM are trickier to print.
There are plenty of e-readers out there that handle PDFs better than a Kindle (Kobo, PocketBook etc.). If you’re techy enough, you could also use tools like Calibre to convert your Kindle books to print and then print them. However, be careful to check the copyright on any book you try to print out, as some publishers allow limited printing for personal use. You can always try to stick to PDFs that are DRM-free or buy print copies of your favorite books to avoid any hassle.
9 Answers2025-06-06
First, consider your source. Comics purchased through ComiXology these days are often simply Amazon storefronts for Kindle comics, while subscription comics such as Shonen Jump are typically consumed through their own dedicated apps rather than on your Kindle. Free and legal manga such as provided by Manga Plus is read through their own app as well. So once again, the ‘best format for Kindle’ is really a question for people who are either reading comics outside of Amazon-licensed channels, sideloading their own files for reading on their Kindle, or perhaps are a part of the comics-archiving community – i.e. the DIY crowd, the archivists, and those looking to read comic books that are not currently available through digital channels.
9 Answers2025-09-11
Meanwhile, Robin Wright and the cast were performing wonderfully throughout the years. The superb work of Wright and rest of cast in the last season, although the material wasn’t of the best quality, was truly dignified. Sadly, their efforts are mostly being eclipsed by the Spacey scandal and so aren’t getting the appreciation they deserve.
For people in the TV industry, the Spacey scandal was a big wake-up call for how dangerous it is to rely too heavily on a single big star. It’s pushed the TV arms of the networks and of the streaming services to think more about building ensemble casts as “safety nets” and to think about contingency plans for how to handle problematic actors. So in some way the awful ending to House of Cards might have had a positive effect on the industry and made it a little stronger to handle difficult stars and show them in a negative light.
9 Answers2026-07-27
When the original text is public domain, but it has been digitized into a specific e-text edition, many find this citation tricky. MLA handles this as: Author. Title. Project Gutenberg, eBook number, Publication date (the e-text release date given on the author’s Project Gutenberg homepage), URL. The fact that it is an e-book or digital file does not need to be noted in the bibliographic citation since it is a publication by Project Gutenberg. Always verify the proper eBook number and the e-text’s release date for that edition from the author’s book homepage on the Project Gutenberg website; there are often multiple versions.
12 Answers2026-07-28
For those concerned with quality, it is not just a case of pixelating images. All PDF documents contain metadata including bookmarks, hyperlinks, form fields and layers. A true lossless merge will not only preserve the visual content of the documents but also the structure. Free tools for merging PDFs often appear to work well at first but soon reveal that all the bookmarks and hyperlinks have been stripped from the document. If you have PDFs with internal links or a table of contents then you need a more complex tool. Here, again, Acrobat Pro is the best tool but there are others on the market that are equally good and more affordable. PDF-XChange Editor is a good example of this and it does a great job of merging PDF documents whilst also preserving all of the document properties and interactive elements.
3 Answers2026-06-18
I find PDF versions of manga through a variety of means. For a start, many of the older manga are now public domain, and can be found on Project Gutenberg. You can find more modern manga as one-shots by searching for the title plus ‘filetype:pdf’ on Google. Some of the online manga readers now have download buttons, although the quality can be patchy – I tend to use MangaFox (now known as FanFox) for this. HakuNeko is also useful for downloading batches of manga and then converting them to PDF. There is also a community of manga fans on the r/manga sub-reddit on Reddit, and sometimes people will share links to Dropbox folders containing PDFs of manga. As always, be careful to scan any downloaded content for malware. I tend to avoid any sites that look like they haven’t been updated since 2005 as they are likely to contain malware.
6 Answers2025-07-05
I can’t be bothered making perfect single page images for small screens most double page spreads don’t fit. Then there’s the problem of dealing with splits or having to scroll around within a large image. I now read my manga on a very cheap Android tablet, and keep to my Kindle for novels. Whilst the contrast and resolution on the Paperwhite are good, there’s something fundamentally wrong with using it to read novels containing large amounts of detailed artwork that would normally be viewed on very large format. If you really must read manga on your Kindle, you’d be better reading manga with less complex images, or looking for titles that have already been released digitally in this format. Reading something like ‘Berserk’ or ‘Vagabond’ on a small Kindle screen is, for me, a really frustrating experience. There are times when the best tool for the job is the one you don’t have with you.
8 Answers2025-05-16
Will this ever change? Super-integrated-ecosystems like Apple are moving towards a model where one can not only redeem a gift card but spend money directly within the app itself. It’s possible that Amazon could follow in their footsteps but I can see why they wouldn’t want to. For one, as it is, Amazon controls the entire purchasing experience for customers who purchase on Amazon.com and are able to promote additional products on the same page. There is also the fact that Amazon would avoid the 30% cut that Apple and Google take on in-app purchases. I wouldn’t count on seeing a “Redeem Gift Card” button within the Kindle app on your iPad in the near future. This minor detour to purchase from the comfort of your iPad in the browser is a small price to pay for the enormous selection of Kindle books.
10 Answers2025-05-21
If you’re traveling, purchasing from a separate country for your registered Kindle(s), or having difficulties verifying your Gift Card balance on a particular region’s website, remember that Gift Card balances are region-specific. A Gift Card purchased from Amazon.com will not display a balance when logged into Amazon.co.uk, for example. Make sure you are checking the appropriate Amazon website for your country.