It's perfect for reading not complex pdfs like books. I use fbreader and pdftohtml. Fbreader is a real ebook reader with library, bookmarks, large fonts, portrait mode...

From de 770 command line:
$ pdftohtml -noframes pdffile.pdf
$ gzip pdffile.html

And finally open using fbreader

If by "not complex pdfs" you mean simple txt-files that somebody converted to pdf then yes, the 770 can handle those very well. *applauds*

Well, if default pdf viewer was able to cut white margins at left and right sides, i would find it quite usable: https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=761 (feel free to vote for this feature request )

No, I didn't mean simple txt-files that somebody convert to pdf, just normal books that are in pdf format. *applauds* *applauds*

Just try it.

try it?
I use the 770 primarily as a Reader. I have hundreds of pdfs and several hours every day i read on the 770.
The built-in reader has a good rendering speed if you consider the slow CPU, i give it that, but it craps out very fast if your pdf contains pictures or is a little bigger, then it runs out of memory or freezes/reboots the 770 (which is not acceptable).
Evince has some nice features which the builtin doesnt (contiunous mode, better fullscreen-mode) but it is slower and way more unstable.

I tried it, it sucks, and thats why i had to convert 90% of my pdfs to jpg-galleries, they are 10 times bigger in filesize but with a 2GB Card its not a problem and i can view them faster and stable in opera then i could otherwise.

That sounds like an interesting way to circumvent the pdf hassle on the 770. I wonder if it would be possible to turn this into a python script with a gui frontend. It could present the user with a simple file open-dialog and would perform your operations on the selected file, ending with opening it in fbreader.

Is it possible to install pdftohtml onto the 770 ??

it's installed by default

Have a 770 edition 2006. So far I'm unable to read an email PDF attachment. It constantly says "not enough memory". My card is a 512 SanDisk. How on earth can there be too little memory? The attachments (faxes) are between 30 - 70 kb.

Just voted. This will be an extremely useful feature to have.