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Originally Posted by Amanda
I saw a book on eBooks.com that I'd like to read but it only seems to be Adobe... is that PDF? (The book is Cynthia Freeland, Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction)
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PDFs you purchase will probably be unreadable on any of the eInk devices. The issue is that PDF is not an eBook format. It's a page layout format.
When the PDF is created it's created for a specific page size - normally the same size as paper (like 8.5"x11"). The iLiad will shrink down the page to fit on the display, so unless a large font size is used, the resulting book will be pretty much unreadable.
You
can use the PDF zoom/pan functions, but I find such functions to be cumbersome. Like trying to read a book through a keyhole.
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Originally Posted by Amanda
I've been reading here abut PDF files - a lot of old books I have are in that format - so I'll figure out reformatting them.
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PDFs take alot of work to reformat. PDF was designed to be a static format - unchangable by the end user. So much of the formatting information in the original document is lost in the PDF.
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Originally Posted by Amanda
are there other formats used for ebooks of old titles that are preferable or are easily converted to something that can be read?
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Anything in an open format (html, ODF, text) can be easily converted into a PDF that's formatted for the page size of the iLiad.
I keep all my eBooks in ODF. Then, when I want to read an eBook on my iLiad, I simply set the page size of the document to the iLiad (about 5x6.5") and export the document as a PDF.