Thread: Why so many different file formats?
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Old 01-02-2011, 02:59 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
PDF is an excellent format for its proper purpose, which is to be a digital representation of a printed page.

However, we're discussing eBook formats here, and PDF isn't an eBook format at all, although it's sometimes perverted into being used as one. Any eBook format has to deal well with different sized screens; PDF, by its very nature, is a representation of a fixed-size page.
Agreed, PDF is for use primarily on a computer, not an e-reader.

Looking at all the devices and formats, the main one that all of them can use with current model of readers is mobi.

Some people may prefer other formats (for some reason they have a preference for epub) but mobi is pretty much the only usable and defined ebook format that all readers can use.
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