I was thinking of getting the second edition of "How Linux Works" in electronic format so that I could do stuff on my desktop computer as I'm reading the book. I'd be buying the Amazon kindle edition.

The Kindle Fire and second-generation Kindle Reader include native support for PDF files, but to view these files on a first-generation Kindle Reader, you must convert them to MOBI or AZW format.

While it’s not the grand opening of the Kindle app store or anything, a developer decided to write an app for Kindle 2 that converts .pdf and .epub docs to Kindle’s beloved .mobi format. The developer ...

The Amazon Kindle supports three main document types: Kindle (.AZW, .AZW1), Text (.TXT) and Unprotected Mobipocket (.MOBI, .PRC). Second-generation Kindles also have a built-in PDF reader and support ...

It’s almost hard to remember, but when it came out, iBooks could read only EPUB files, not PDFs, and the only way to load them was by syncing with iTunes. Over a number of releases of both iBooks and ...