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Originally Posted by AnneT
As for the format: although the 'p' in pdf stands for 'portable', I don't consider it a real 'portable' ebook-format, as it largely depends on your screen how your reading experience is. For Ebooks, I prefer ePub.
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The 'p' portable meant portable in a different way... it meant "portable between platforms", not "handheld portable devices". It is a file format for fixed layout publishing, which will never work well on varying screen sizes, it's just not what it was intended for.
If one were to create PDF files designed for the resolution and screen size of the 6 inch readers you could create some BEAUTIFUL books on the Kindle, but they'd lose a lot of functionality that you get with file formats that allow for reflowing. For most novels, reflowable formats are superior as they allow you to change the font size, margins, etc, but novels have seldom relied on very advanced formatting to get their meaning across, whereas textbooks, magazines, academic papers, etc, often do rely on their formatting to help convey meaning, and thus they use PDF.