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Originally Posted by DaleDe
PDF can be a choice for books if it contains text that is reflowable and if the reader supports reflow. Unfortunately most readers other than the ones from Adobe do not support reflow and even the Adobe ones require that the text be tagged for reflow. (There are ways to tag a file after the fact but this is beyond the scope here.)
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Not even all Adobe readers support reflow. Eg, the PDF code in the Sony Reader is licensed from Adobe, and it has no reflow support!
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While your statement about a general format that is page specific being a bad thing is true it is also true that most readers use a page specific format that is specific for their reader. This is one of the real problems that must be addressed before a universal format like epub can be used natively as a book format. Real books are pages. (This probably deserves its own discussion somewhere).
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Could you elaborate - I'm not sure that I follow you. When you load, say, an RTF or an LRF file into the Sony Reader, or a MobiPocket file into the iLiad, it doesn't have pre-defined pages; the reader "paginates" it when it loads. The pages are not defined in the file, as they are with PDF. Apologies if I've misunderstood you.
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