E-books, pdfs, ePubs and all other hellish inventions

Ok so I was finally swayed to buy an e-book reader after I got tired of reading Christopher Hitchens memoirs from a 4 kilogram 2m^2 book that I had to carry around the city.

The problem:
While the preloaded books were fine, just the right size and layout for the e-reader and for comfortable reading, when I tried to put in my own e-books in pdf format I encountered a predictable problem: The letters are too small. The format is the same in my e-reader as it is in my computer so while I can easily read the A4 pdf page on my massive monitor the tiny screen of my e-reader proves to be very inadequate.

Surely somebody here must have some experience with this technology. Is there an easy way of formating my e-books to adjust to the screen size of my e-reader?

 

Which one do you have?

 

I love my Kindle 2. Best thing since sliced bread. And it broke and they sent me a new one free.

The format you're looking for for pirated books is "PDF OCR" this will let you adjust the text to the screen size. Regular PDFs don't work.

 

Really?

I've got a nook, and it'll let me blow up or shrink the font to whatever I want (though the actual font remains unchangable) with both PDFs and epubs. Chapter names are always the same size, and it throws page numbers off, but the size is adjustable.

 

http://www.prestigio.com/products/eBook-readers/3-series/eBook-Reader-PER5062B

@Jon: So if I buy a pdf or ePub specifically in an e-book shop it shouldn't be a problem?

EDIT: Ok after some research it seems that the answer is yes, at least for ePubs. (wont risk buying pdfs)

 

Yeah buying a PDF ebook won't help you but if you buy it through Amazon it always does All I know is I get free 3G internet access anywhere and it's awesum.

So is going to Amazon and buying books and then turning it on and its already there. Awesum.