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Originally Posted by BobR
I share Colin's sentiments against pdf. Not so much because it's bad at what it does, but because it's a bad format for ebooks and for a lot of web content.
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PDF was not original designed for reading maleable documents or on portable devices - something html/xml is much better at - which I think is partly why there is a paucity of good pdf readers for mobile devices.
I use Acrobat rather a bit for producing image scans of old paperbacks with crappy glue binding that are falling apart. I don't have the time or the inclination to go through an OCR process to convert them into a more politically correct format, and these files work very well with tablet-style devices. Lately I've been reading them on my Lifebook P1510 (a device I hope to review in more detail when time permits).
For this application it works very well, but I have no illusion that it is an ideal ebook format. Clearly it is not, but it wasn't originally intended to be. But I can't think of a file format better suited to collections of multiple images you'd want arranged in an arbitrary format with contents, an index, bookmarks, etc.