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Originally Posted by Hitch
Well, of course. "Print Replica" is essentially a PDF, slapped inside a wrapper that makes it a Kindle file. And you're going to have exactly the experience you've described, if the publisher provided Amazon with a crap PDF to begin with. That's not a "converted" eBook. That's...that's a low-quality PDF disguised as an eBook. It's pretending.
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Thirded on how bad "Print Replica" is on mobile devices.
"Print Replica" is an AZW4 format which is pretty much a PDF in a wrapper. You can read a tiny bit more about it on the MobileRead Wiki:
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/AZW4
I see it having the same failings as PDF: you just can't physically cram 6"x9", 7"x10", 8.5"x11", [...], into a tiny screen... the text would have to be redesigned with reflowability in mind!
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Originally Posted by Hitch
(And guys, sorry if apodictic was a problem, but it seemed apt to the proposition about Kindle sales #'s.)
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Apodictic is one of my favorite words!
Here it is in Chapter 12 of
Human Action, one of the greatest economic treatises of the 20th century:
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As it is impossible to establish the total amount of money spent at a given fraction of time for consumers’ goods, statisticians must rely upon the prices paid for individual commodities. This raises two further problems for which there is no apodictic solution. It becomes necessary to attach to the various commodities coefficients of importance. It would be manifestly wrong to let the prices of various commodities enter into the computation without taking into account the different roles they play in the total system of the individuals’ households. But the establishment of such proper weighting is again arbitrary. [...]
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