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Originally Posted by chyron8472
Why do people care about PDF so much?
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Mobi, ePub, etc have very limited formatting capabilities, the built-in fonts on the devices are either missing characters or lacking in character, and the reflowable layout engines typeset text worse than a Sixties pulp paperback.
Tiny low-resolution e-reader screens with slow refresh will go away. PDFs will not.
A quick example of why I am delighted with the PDF support on my Kindle 3:
JNTO Practical Travel Guides. These free A4 PDFs cover every significant tourist destination in Japan, and are filled with clean black-and-white maps; not simple bitmaps, but real print-quality scalable graphics that you can zoom in on. Yes, the small text is annoying, but you can work around it, and the maps are fantastic.
-j