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>As you may know there is a nice, free utility Calibre which will convert epub and just about anything else to the MOBI format Kindle likes. PDFs seem to display better as pdf than after conversion, but this is a must for the epub format (lots of free stuff out there in epub)
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You can just e-mail it to your Kindle e-mail address (Go to My Account on Amazon - there is a section for the Kindle. Click on it and it will show you the address). I just e-mailed myself a few PDF's and MOBI files.


>I have been told you can use it as a browser - have you figured that out ?

Menu > Experimental > Web Browser

It's slow and you'll miss being able to easily scroll, but not bad if you're just reading a blog post or somethin (hit Menu and switch to Article mode seems to help).