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charlieperry · 10-09-2008, 02:00 AM

I was really please back when Sony announced that it was going to support Adobe DRM books. Before pdf support it was quite hard to buy ebooks in Australia.

Having bought a few pdf books for my PRS 505 now I have to say that I'm really disappointed. The main reason is that, although they are sold as books, Adobe digital editions are actually just documents. They don't reflow properly in the way that lrf does and I'm assuming the other ebook formats do when you enlarge them.

The really irritating thing about this is that when you enlarge the "book" so that it is readable you usually end up with one line of text rolling over onto the next page the rest of which is blank. This effectively doubles the number of pages you have to turn in the book.

The essence of my rant is that pdf isn't really an ebook format and it shouldn't be sold as such.

Maybe there's a simple solution to this problem in which case I'd love to hear it.

10-09-2008, 02:00 AM	#1
charlieperry Connoisseur Posts: 89 Karma: 174 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sydney Device: Sony PRS 505	A small rant about pdf books I was really please back when Sony announced that it was going to support Adobe DRM books. Before pdf support it was quite hard to buy ebooks in Australia. Having bought a few pdf books for my PRS 505 now I have to say that I'm really disappointed. The main reason is that, although they are sold as books, Adobe digital editions are actually just documents. They don't reflow properly in the way that lrf does and I'm assuming the other ebook formats do when you enlarge them. The really irritating thing about this is that when you enlarge the "book" so that it is readable you usually end up with one line of text rolling over onto the next page the rest of which is blank. This effectively doubles the number of pages you have to turn in the book. The essence of my rant is that pdf isn't really an ebook format and it shouldn't be sold as such. Maybe there's a simple solution to this problem in which case I'd love to hear it.