[citation][nom]ekubaskie[/nom]This was true with the earliest Kindle, but certainly not so lately. My Kindle Wifi works just fine with files downloaded from Project Gutenberg, stored directly into the Kindle's memory via the USB cable.I've also read many a plain text file on the Kindle. PDFs are a bit of a problem though, unless they are formatted directly for the Kindle's page size.Meanwhile, if you haven't been to the project, go! Thousands of classics, free: http

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Right, I loved the P.G. Wodehouse books from Gutenberg.
About the pdf - I pushed the "Aa" button on my Kindle 3 and switched to one of the landscape modes. That helped a lot with the PDFs I had around. In Portrait mode the font was too small.
I'm using the USB cable too, just dragging files in Windows Explorer to "documents", no fuss. A weird thing here - my original cable worked fine on my PC's front USB ports. Then I managed to break it. I bought a replacement cable, and that one only works in the USB ports on the back. The front USB ports are fine, since they work with MyPassport drives or flash drives. It looks like not all Kindle cables are equal, LOL.