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Old 06-16-2011, 10:12 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by toddos View Post
Because PDF is not a valid ebook format. Also, perhaps they actually care about their users.
You keep repeating this. But it's not true.

PDF is a perfect ebook format, currently more capable at presenting complex layouts than any other format I know of.

The problem is that most current devices are incapable of taking advantage of most current PDFs.

Unfortunately, there seems to be a hardware race to the bottom, with the same 6" screens competing mostly on price. I guess it's the hardware answer to the mass-paperback, aimed at readers who care nothing about presentation.

I hope as technology improves, we'll see devices capable of presenting hard-cover quality layout on hardcover-sized screens -- in the range of 11"-12".

If there were such devices, I personally would buy nothing but PDF books.

To each their own, of course, but PDF is an ebook format.
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