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Originally Posted by BensonBear
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 didn't think of this but you're right. Why should related bookmarks be restricted to one book only. Innovative thinking.
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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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I agree that PDF was not ment to be reflowed, but if I was Adobe (as being the major player in PDF reading and creation software) I would quickly rethink that position. The web is becoming more and more format independent (responsive layout) PDF could become responsive also. Maybe even more smart then reflowing because it is taken into account during the the design process.
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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.
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No sorry I didn't.
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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.
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Some PDFs would do alright but I have many that I would love to read with a bigger font. As I haven't read your previous posts on this have you created something that can delete the margins? Because if not you would still be stuck with the sliding to the right before you could turn the page. Which is tedious. I going to search for your posts ;-)
Best, Jan