it's for reading text

I bought a kindle 2 a few months ago, and I've enjoyed reading books, papers, etc on it.
Almost everything has been in pdf form though,
and the pdf fonts are not always optimised for e-ink reading (actually never optimised).

Yesterday I wanted to read an interesting blog on it, so I dumped the text from the website into a text file and loaded it up on the kindle.

I'd forgotten how much better the built in fonts are on the kindle.

Since then I've been converting all my pdfs to mobi format using calibre.
It converts the text perfectly, and almost all the images. The formatting can be pretty skewed though, which sucks for long lines of code.

Still, it's a hell of a lot better than reading the pdfs directly.