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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Not a fan of text reflow I take it. If by book you mean a novel, not a graphic-novel or comic book, then illustrations are at a minimum and easily accommodated. If you mean a reader for textbooks, manuals or magazines then color and a larger size is mandated and your points have some effect. As is the case for the graphic-novel and comics
mentioned earlier.
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Text reflow is fine if the content is something that
can be reflowed. For text in one column, with in line illustrations that can be scaled to fit the display, it's splendid. For other things, it's not.
Text books are a case in point. They often involve multiple columns, sidebars, illustrations that may not scale well, and design that reflow would mangle. For those, Adobe PDF is pretty much the required format, as is a device with a large enough screen to accommodate the content.
The Amazon Kindle DX is an attempt to address this requirement, with the Adobe Mobile SDK to provide PDF Viewer capability and a larger screen than the standard Kindle. I've seen reports that students in university pilot programs are less than thrilled with it, so that area is still a work in progress.
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Dennis