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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
the only ereader i know of that reflows the pictures with the text is Pocketbook. they included that feature starting with their Pro series of devices and its limited to certain image formats. every other I have seen, and thats quite many, just leaves the images out of reflowed views.
reflow isn't "needed" so much as "desired" by some depending on use case and personal preference. even with very small text, decent zooming and panning can negate the need for reflow. especially I have found, in most of my use cases, if I can also rotate to landscape mode. column reading mode is especially helpful in that it preserves the formatting and embedded images but zooms the text up to readable size.
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You're right in what you're saying, however, it would work more desirable on regular LCD screens. The reason people having reflow is because panning and page flipping does not happen very smooth on an e-ink screen.
Reading in landscape mode is ok, but if the text has 2 columns, you'll have to page down, and page up again to read the second column.
Zooming in you could have as much as 4 pageflips to read one single page.
On an LCD the transition is much smoother as there is no page flip delay.