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Originally Posted by hidari
Like Harry T. has mentioned in quite a few threads... PDF is not meant to be read in ebook format...never had and never will be..........."until a BIG escreen" is available for it.
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However, PDF is so widespread that we cannot simply ignore it.
The only real problem with the format is that it is not reflowable, and if the Cybook had a better PDF reader with zoom feature, this would not be such a big problem. Currently, you can only read PDFs with a small page size similar to the Cybook. Sometimes you can achieve this by cropping off borders using Acrobat writer. Then reading such books on the Cybook is actually not so bad.
Also, Adobe has a PDF reader for ebooks and they are working on the problem (
see Wikipedia). It is possible even today to produce PDA-friendly PDF ebooks; PDF per se is not unusable for small escreens.
It's just a matter of how how the PDF files have been created. The Google PDF books for instance, are probably only a file image per page (and I suppose in a compressed format that cannot be read by the Cybook). That's not really what PDF was intended for.
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Originally Posted by hidari
Using Mobipocket Creator... is the solution and perfect for the gen3
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Yes, but that does not help me much when my books are not available in Mobireader format or cannot be easily converted into that format.