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Originally Posted by kacir
Sadly, there are millions of e-books in pdf and many people think that the best way to distribute a book is to print it to PDF formatted for A4 or Letter. Datasheets, journals, user manuals, textbooks ... those are all books, even when they are not meant to be read on an e-ink reader.
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If you look at it that way, yes. They could be considered to be digital books, but IMHO, not ebooks; not in the way I think an ebook should be.
Therefore I don't consider a PDF manual for my audio receiver to be an ebook. It's just the digital version of a paper manual. I only consider files to be an ebook if they are specifically created to work well on an ebook reader, and a PDF-file is not it; thus I am of the opinion that PDF is not an ebook format, as it was not designed to be used on an ebook reader.
Maybe it's a bit narrow-minded, but if one would consider PDF to be an ebook, then a plain text file, or a website saved in MHT (one compressed file for all content) is also an ebook....