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Originally Posted by SpiderMatt
Except when you can format your own PDF files to your liking then they are already superior to p-books. With the right program, converting and reformating PDF books is simple, as well. Why should a reading device tell me how my ebook is going to look when I can know exactly how it will look before I even load it on my Reader.
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No converting and reformatting PDFs is not simple. Indeed, it cannot be simple, because in a PDF file there is no structural/semantic information. You're arguing from an end user perspective, basically I can do what I want with PDF therefore ODF must be a good ebook format. Look at the larger picture.
An ebook, unlike a pbook, should serve multiple purposes. One is presenting the information to humans, PDF is great for that. The other is presenting the information to computers for processing/extraction/indexing/transformation, PDF sucks for that. And PDF by its very nature will
always suck for that. Thus, PDF does basically what a pbook does (somewhat better, I agree), but that's not nearly enough.