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Originally Posted by BWinmill
If the vendor doesn't specify, ask. If the vendor doesn't answer, you aren't compelled to buy it.
This problem was partially created by Adobe. Judging from Rob Lister's screen captures, they format is being indicated correctly. ePub is ePub and PDF has been referred to as Adobe in many circles ever since Adobe dropped the Acrobat.
PDF is a perfectly acceptable ebook format. The fact that it's a page description language doesn't exclude it from that categorization, it simply makes PDF harder to use on different screen sizes and aspect ratios. Yet it has been utilized for purely electronic documents for years.
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epub is also Adobe encrypted, so "Adobe Encrypted(DRM)" would also mean epub to me.
Since even PDF files that are supposedly well designed looked horrible on my Boox 60 and not very good on my Sony 950, PDF is not an ebook format. I had The Lord of the Rings in PDF before I knew better, and it was unreadable on my Boox 60 even though it was reflowable. I have seen some people point this book out as well formatted.
On my Sony 950 it mostly reflowed ok, but there were parts of the text that did not display correctly and I was left with many pages that had only only a few lines - these were at the end of every "PDF page". So if a PDF page had 60 lines and my font size gave me only 50 lines I would have one page with 50 lines and the next had 10 lines, the next with 50 the next 10... The page with 10 lines also would end in the middle of the line because whatever was the last word on the PDF page was also the last word on the epub page even if it was the middle of the line. Sony was supposed to have good PDF capabilities - even this was better than the Boox did.
The title at the top of every PDF pagE was incorrect - "THE LORD OF THE RINGS" showed as "TH E L ORD OF THE RI NGS" on my Sony, and the Boox had parts of the text this way and also extra blank lines here and there.
*Not* an ebook format.