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Originally Posted by janpeeters
Can you explain what you mean by this? When would this be handy?
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Say for example you are reading about a specific problem, that many books address. You want to group the books so that when you are on one, it is easy to get to the other ones as well, and also to the particular sections where they discuss the same topics or even refer to one another. So the point of the organization here is not just to find one book you can't remember the title of, but to keep books together that must be used together. And in fact it should keep related bookmarks together. There is no reason in modern times to have bookmarks stuck with the particular books! That is a mere limitation of the physical nature of books. Ironically, when these devices talk about "bookshelves" they are sticking with the same physically constraining metaphor. (Although apparently you can put books on more than one shelf, so the metaphor, thank goodness, is not accurate in that respect).
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I agree PDF reflow is not yet really refined. There might be 'tags/codes' in PDFs that could be read for a better conversion but I don't know if that's the case.
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Generally, it is not at all the case. PDF is not meant to be reflowed or anything like that, it was originally meant just as a way to define documents that would be printed out. This is a central aspect of the problem. I believe it would not be too hard to alter some of the pdf to html programs to intelligently guess at headers, footers, footnotes especially with a small amount of human guidance. It would use global page heuristics such as noticing when the font changes on the page, how long it stays changed, and the like, and guess what parts of the text can be diverted to footnotes or removed entirely.
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The problems with the zooming is that when you've zoomed, turning the page is a hassle because you have to slide to the edge, press next page and position the page again.
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Right, I guess you didn't see my many previous tedious postings on this. Makes pdf reading awful on the Kobo as it is. However, as I said, if you go to landscape, and zoom to the maximum you can, such that you see the entire page, and just give up the margins, do you think that is large enough text to read? I find with most books it easily is.
So pdf could be done without reflow on the kobo, with ease. In fact I have written some code that proves this to my satisfaction, at least.