09-17-2009, 05:52 AM | #46 |
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09-17-2009, 06:01 AM | #47 | |
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PDF was developed before dedicated ereaders was even thought off. So, when they came, the PDF's weren't made up correctly for a small screen. Nothing you do on the reader will change the PDF (because that's the nature of the format, the application that shows it will show it as the original creator designed it). With MP3 you don't have those problems. You only need a way to play a sound. There is no problem with layout. So, any device, dedicated or not, could be able to do it, be it tiny or huge. So, in the first case (PDF) there is the function (show lettering) and format (show the lettering in a certain way, as the created designed). In the second case (MP3) there is only the function (play the sound). No format to consider (though the better players will be able to "boost" the sound by way of an equalizer) |
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I find this information a bit miss-leading from a Amazon, they didn't count for pre-orders of the Hard book, only on the day sales.
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09-17-2009, 09:59 AM | #49 | |
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Ultimately, for better or worse, I rather think most any publisher can afford to be apathetic toward both of these things without fearing grave consequences. - Ahi |
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That is an example of a negative assertion not disproving the original. Now to Sweetpea's objection. Quote:
MP3s were made for playing on a computer. MP3s were made before the existence of the iPod. The iPod is a better music playing device than a computer. None of this changes the fact that MP3s are music files. PDFs were made for reading on a computer. PDFs were made before the existence of the Kindle and Sony. The Kindle/Sony is a better book displaying device than the computer. None of this changes the fact that PDFs are book files. PDFs weren't designed just for displaying books, but that doesn't change the fact that they do display books. Similarly, MP3s aren't limited to just playing music as they can also play podcasts and any recorded sound. Electronic readers were designed to display a variety of ebook formats with PDF being one of them. Just because the early generation of readers had small screens that didn't display PDFs well doesn't mean that PDFs aren't an ebook format. In fact the latest generation of ereaders with larger screens are quite capable of displaying PDFs. Last edited by Daithi; 09-17-2009 at 10:16 AM. |
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I'll share with you a secret.
PDF is the only eBook format that has the capability of representing the incredible range and sometimes considerable (and for many books necessary) complexity that books have. Books--not just books that are novels or essays--including books with footnotes or marginal notes, mathematics texts, other textbooks, illustrated cookbooks, books with liberal intermixing of different scripts and languages, poetry books where form is of equal importance to content, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. - Ahi |
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The term has been around for about 30 years, but with evolving meaning. |
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I think that term gets a lot of play here because that is one of the ways pirated media, like books, gets distributed. But, there are also legitimate versions of darknets, since VPNs can also be considered darknets in as much as they are private secure networks operating over the general Internet. |
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You must avoid areas that have questionable people. I've been in a lot of communities that have piracy issues, and it isn't uncommon at all.
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