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Originally Posted by Sonist
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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Wrong. PDF is usually fixed for an 8.5"x11" display, and it really doesn't have a way to display properly on a smaller display. That's the big problem with pdf, it won't display or reflow properly on a smaller ereader. Don't confuse the issue, we need a universal ebook format, and pdf is not the one at present.