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Originally Posted by igorsk
DJVU format is a good compromise. It can have both page images AND a text layer for searching and indexing. Also, the compression algorithms used are extremely effective for black-and-white text.
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PDF can do this as well. DJVU has better compression but that is a different issue. For page formats and for reflow PDF could be made to work if the eBook devices could reflow the text in a reasonable manner. If we switched to DJVU we could be having this exact same discussion that you can't see shrunk pages. This issue is the software not necessarily the format.
higher resolution devices don't solve the problem because little bitty text doesn't get any bigger with higher resolution unless you couple the device with a magnifying glass and then you have to scroll around to read the text. this is not a good experience.
Its all SMOP anyway. (Small matter of programming)