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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'm basing this ont he fact that if the formatting does not need to be complex, then we are stuck with a fixed format and a fixed font size. Part of the idea of a reader is th ability to change the font size and also letter sized PDF do not look good on a 6" screen without reformatting of the PDF. Can you honestly say that you would enjoy more reading a letter sized PDF (of non-complex formatting) on your Gen3 then you would had it been in Mobipocket format?
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You are referring to the limitations of existing ebook readers that do not reflow a PDF file to fit a different sized screen and do not allow one to make the font larger or smaller. This is not the experience I have when reading on a Pocket PC.
Readers who are not interested or knowledgeable of the ins and outs of what comprises an electronic book, care about whether or not they can read a book comfortably. On my Cybook, I cannot read a PDF eBook comfortably because the Cybook does not provide the options I need to do that. On the Cybook PDF books are displayed as simple print images of the original paper books. But the same books that are tagged and reflowed on my Pocket PC are true electronic documents that display great on the smaller screen. This is a limitation with the Cybook, not with the format and does not make the PDF format dreadful as an eBook.