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Originally Posted by tompe
If it is hard to write programs that correctly handles the data format I definitely will blame the data format. If you need 100 hour to program a functionality for pdf and 1 hour coding it for another comparable format then the pdf format is bad and should be blamed.
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I see your point here, but to be fair, I've set tags, TOCs, bookmarks and indexes for PDF documents at my former positions, and it doesn't take that long. A great deal of that work is automated by Acrobat (and some is automated by apps like Word when you convert to PDF). It's not that hard. (For the record, all of my books in PDF format are tagged, and have working TOCs if applicable.)
ePub isn't a format that you "just set up" in 2 or 3 minutes, either. That doesn't make it unsuitable as an e-book format. In fact, if taking extra time means you get a better document out of it, it's worth the effort.