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Originally Posted by pagansoul
What do you have against PDF. Before I got my Kindle I used to read many books off my Macbook in PDF. I find it very nice to look at. Is it hard to convert?
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PDF was never intended to be an e-Book format and has all sorts of problems when used as one. The main ones are:
1. It's a representation of a specifically-sized page, and is difficult to display on small pages. In particular, PDF files formatted for A4/US Letter sized pages don't display at all well on small screens such as those used by the Kindle, Sony, Gen3, etc.
2. A PDF file contains no "textual" information - it doesn't know about paragraphs, sentences, or even words. All that's in the file are instructions of the level "display a letter 'A' at coordinates (x,y) on the page". This makes it difficult to convert to other formats, especially when the page layout is complex.
For these reasons, PDF is best avoided as an eBook format unless it's a book which has been specifically formatted for the screen size of the device on which it's being read.