Thread: PDF is not an ebook format!
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Old 07-29-2013, 11:32 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by sangitasingh247 View Post
Agreed. Pdf should not be an ebook. I consider is just a read only version of the document, which is not editable and also saves the formatting of the document when opened in different text editors. I have had experience with this problem of format messing up in other editors.

Anyways, I like reading ebooks in my android device and I really love the page flip effect when I turn page. It feels like I am reading a paper back version of it and is also has the sound of a paper turning. This effect is absent in pdf.

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There are a lot of free pdf readers with realistic page-curl animations for pdfs (textual or scanned), at least for iOS.

It all boils down to pdf document size A4 or A5 and e-reader size 10" or 6".

In many e-ink devices like Sony PRS we can use reflow for textual pdf while in Kindle we can even use pdf reflow on scanned images, if there is kindlepdfviewer installed.

I have no problem whatsoever reading A4 sized pdf in landscape mode on Kindle Dx or iPad, because its screen width (about 20 cm) is larger than A4 pdf text width (17-19 cm).
Last edited by markom; 07-29-2013 at 12:09 PM.
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