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some call me tim · 09-07-2010, 05:58 PM

The only PDFs I've seen have been from books I checked out from the library, and those were teeny. When blown up to the largest setting, they're readable, but of course, the reflow gets all screwy, with the spacing and paragraphs and such. I cringe to think what reading a Cormac McCarthy book would be like on a reflowed PDF!

So, I can see that when making your own PDFs, you can scale it to fit the screen of whatever particular reader. That's cool, but still, doesn't that mean that any PDF ebooks you download or 99% of PDFs period would look janky on an ereader?

I still don't know what makes epubs so bad either...I've seen a couple poorly formatted epubs, and those WERE bad. But, when properly done, they've looked great to me.

09-07-2010, 05:58 PM	#66
some call me tim Connoisseur Posts: 52 Karma: 22620 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Seattle Device: Kindle Voyage, Kobo Libra	The only PDFs I've seen have been from books I checked out from the library, and those were teeny. When blown up to the largest setting, they're readable, but of course, the reflow gets all screwy, with the spacing and paragraphs and such. I cringe to think what reading a Cormac McCarthy book would be like on a reflowed PDF! So, I can see that when making your own PDFs, you can scale it to fit the screen of whatever particular reader. That's cool, but still, doesn't that mean that any PDF ebooks you download or 99% of PDFs period would look janky on an ereader? I still don't know what makes epubs so bad either...I've seen a couple poorly formatted epubs, and those WERE bad. But, when properly done, they've looked great to me.