Kindle vs Nook- Reading PDF books

My geeky friend got a Kindle for Christmas. He found an article on line on how to load pdf files on Kindle. So we poked around and downloaded latest firmware. For test purpose we loaded a technical book in pdf format with diagrams etc. It worked! but font looks small and you can’t change font size as you can with kindle books.
Very disappointing!!
I have lots of books in adobe pdf format.
But my other friend just got a Nook and we ran the same test. .. And boom!!! it worked and Nook let you change the font size.
So if you planning to use pdf books Nook is a better choice. Wondering how apple ipad will handle pdf reading…

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