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I don't believe I voted, but my feelings are mixed.
I think PDF is a perfectly valid format, if you have an appropriate device to display them. Most of the nay sayers have devices that don't do it well.
My ebook reader is a Palm OS PDA with a 320x480 screen. I can read PDFs -- there is a superb open source Palm OS PDF viewer called PalmPDF, based on a Palm shared library port of XPDF. But that small screen is a deal breaker for a lot of PDFs that don't reflow well, and side-scrolling to read a page is a PITA. So I read PDFs on the PDA only if no other format exists for the content.
That's okay. I don't expect all content I read to be something readable in that form factor, and there is some content I wouldn't want to view on that size screen, even if I could. I have a 19" monitor on my desktop in 1600x1200 resolution for a reason...
My issue isn't with PDFs as such: it's with content that is only provided as PDF. A lot of the stuff that's out there in PDF form is stuff that could reflow to fit whatever screen without harming readability, save that the producers didn't offer it in a format that did that.
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Dennis
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