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When I set out to create a PDF ebook 5 years ago that would be sold,
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Ahhh... now we come to the
real reason why you like PDF: to lock down your work and prevent readers from actually "buying" it electronically.
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Originally Posted by ProfJulie
As far as I can tell, most of these are not facts at all...they are simply your opinion of this file format. For me to consider them to be facts would require more research than what you've presented here.
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Let's see. I just did a reproducible test which demonstrates that PDF produces extremely large files compared to alternatives.
Yes, my assertion about the number of tagged PDFs out there is my opinion: based on the number of PDFs that I have acquired. I have a directory full of PDFs. None of them are tagged. All of them have come from commercial sources.
Based upon the fact that I have been working with eBooks for the last 5 years using various formats, I can say from experience that PDF offers no benefit over the alternatives.
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I can annotate passages of text in PDF books with my own notes
I can highlight text
I can search the files for specific words or phrases.
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Our discussion is about PDF. Not about Adobe Acrobat.
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You state that PDF is a dead end format.....why?
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Because our
experience is that once an eBook is in PDF, it's extremely time consuming to change it to something else.
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You honestly believe that the PDF format is obsolete?
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Yup. It is an electronic version of a paper book. As an eBook format it fails in every way.
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I read an article that was linked here last week that showed that PDF clearly leads every other format.
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And I actually created PDFs to be used on my eBook readers and compared how well they worked compared to other formats.
Experience trumps reading articles.
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I think PDF is here to stay and will be around for a very long time. My hope is that one day I'll be able to read the PDF books I've checked out of the library on an electronic reader like the Cybook.
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That won't ever happen. You can go read the articles about DRM to figure that out.