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Originally Posted by HarryT
There are indeed a great many books which can be obtained in the form of PDF files, but to my mind, PDF files is what they are, not eBooks.
So, for these reasons, I vote "no". PDF files are not eBooks, even if they do happen to contain the pages of a book.
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The question that remains unanswered is how are you going to do an e-version of say a math book or anything where the 2 dimensional structure of the book is important.
There are even fiction books consisting essentially of text for which the 2 dimensional structure is quite important. Did you see
House of Leaves by M . Danielewski with its inverted pages, column writing, empty or partially filled pages, various fonts?
Or more recently
Debatable Spaces by P. Palmer - Orbit actually did a marvelous job of recreating the 2 dimensional structure in its e-extract, but I think it would take a lot of work to do it for the whole novel and there are pages where I doubt reflowability will work.