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Originally Posted by jocampo
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I do not think that your Kindle sucks on those categories  . The Kindle is an ereader; was designed for novels, pure text books. It is not a tablet. |
Sorry but that is just not correct. In fact one of the HUGE selling points of early reader devices was the promise of PDF support. And the issue lies not with the reader devices but the fact that PDF is NOT AN EBOOK FORMAT, it's a printer markup language period. It has been usurped into a convenient document delivery system. In a way it is amazing ebook readers support PDF at all.
The tech hurdles in supporting the various versions of the mistakenly assumed "standard" of PDF. Nothing is further than the truth, there is no PDF standard. What there is, is a set of conventions and a zillion offshoots of those conventions.
But to say ereaders are not made to view PDF's shows some lack of being there at the beginning of ereading devices when people were sold on them because of PDF support.
I have to agree that Amazon's PDF support is nothing short of scary bad for a device with the money behind the thing. Still it's not 100% on Amazon because you never know if the PDF is coming from a printer PDF creator or from a Adobe Acrobat or anywhere in between and all of them having different internal structure and from different eras. Nope not a mess I would want to deal with and I don't expect even Slate devices to be much better, better yes but great, nope. That's because they too need some pretty sophisticated software to sort though the possible variations.