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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Was this tongue in cheek? 
Who says that PDF is not a valid ebook format? I will strongly disagree with that. PDF has major issues as a format, but it is an ebook format that offers advantages in certain areas and it must be accommodated in a solid eReader.
Wanting landscape viewing for PDF reading is not inappropriate, imho. |
Nope, not tongue in cheek at all. PDF is a horrible, horrible, proprietary, unmanageable format that publishers use when they're lazy. IMHO, more ebook readers should have intentionally bad or no PDF support in order to make publishers realize that when they use PDF they betray their hate for their readers.
While you and others do have a point that PDFs are useful in some non-fiction books (data-heavy books with lots of sidebars and such), that assumes a paper-centric view. There's no reason ebooks of that ilk couldn't be more interactive, or rendered in HTML (I'd rather more readers support raw HTML than PDF).
PDF is for magazine designers who can't think digitally and require pixel-perfect layout control like they have on paper. Those designers should stick to their dying glossy-papered magazines and leave the digital realm to people who get it.