[RobertDDL]

I am aware that most people who read e-books see the liberation of text from the confinement of the fixed page, its adaptability to various screen sizes and individual display options, as progress, but I regret this loss of form. Well designed pages give a book a shape, an optical flavor, a visual identity. Good typesetting, by taking care of a lot of small details, smoothes out the visual bumps that interfere with reading, just as noise interferes with listening to music. But good typesetting needs pages -- with dynamically formatted text it simply cannot be done. Size matters, of course, and this goes both ways. I understand the allure of small and lightweight devices on which a fixed layout makes little or no sense, but my ideal e-book is in PDF format, with a proper layout, to be read on an 8" or 10" screen. Yes, I know, it's a minority view...