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Katsunami · 09-05-2013, 02:09 PM

A PDF on a 6 inch e-ink e-reader does not work. You'll need at least a 9.7 inch reader, or a tablet of that size to read a PDF comfortably. As in, reading it as it was designed to be read. If your book leans heavily on a fixed layout, pictures, and colors, with text being secondary, go with PDF by all means, and require the reader to have a large tablet (or e-reader, if they're willing to omit color). In this case, you don't really have any choice.

It's not feasible to convert a PDF / Book designed for printing to en EPUB and expect it to look good. The media are too different. The one is fixed layout (PDF, print), the other is not (EPUB). They require separate approaches. If your book has some graphics and colors, but can do without the fixed layout and the focus is on text mainly, it's far better to make a new seperate EPUB version.

09-05-2013, 02:09 PM	#4
Katsunami Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,111 Karma: 34000001 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: KPW1, KA1	A PDF on a 6 inch e-ink e-reader does not work. You'll need at least a 9.7 inch reader, or a tablet of that size to read a PDF comfortably. As in, reading it as it was designed to be read. If your book leans heavily on a fixed layout, pictures, and colors, with text being secondary, go with PDF by all means, and require the reader to have a large tablet (or e-reader, if they're willing to omit color). In this case, you don't really have any choice. It's not feasible to convert a PDF / Book designed for printing to en EPUB and expect it to look good. The media are too different. The one is fixed layout (PDF, print), the other is not (EPUB). They require separate approaches. If your book has some graphics and colors, but can do without the fixed layout and the focus is on text mainly, it's far better to make a new seperate EPUB version. Last edited by Katsunami; 09-05-2013 at 02:42 PM.