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Originally Posted by khalleron
People read at different font sizes, on different sized screens - reflow *is* necessary for an ebook to be readable across users and devices.
The only time this is not necessary is if you're formatting your own books for your own use.
Which is such a small qualifier as to to be negligible.
It's not 'arbitrary' at all.
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I didn't say that "reflow was arbitrary". I said that "reflow as a pass/fail condition for something being eligible to be called an 'eBook format' was arbitrary". Or at least, that's what I was trying to convey.
I have PDF books that
don't have words. Does the fact that they don't have words to reflow make THEM not an eBook at all? Of course not. It's an unusual eBook, but it IS an eBook. It's a book in electronic form. That's all it needs to be to be an eBook.
Please understand that I'm not arguing that PDF is some kind of nirvana format. I AM arguing that it is a valid eBook format for some books in some cases for some people.
That. Is. All. 
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Furthermore, we do not use "readable across users and devices" as a rubric for "is it an eBook format". If we did, then there would be NO eBook formats, because I can't think of a single format that is readable by all users across all devices.