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Originally Posted by dickloraine
If you create a pdf specially designed for your taste and device, of course that is superior to an epub, especially if you used for example latex to typeset it. But now consider you wanted to read your ebook on you smartphone. You can't read it very good, because the font is to small and you can't change it. So now you need to make a second pdf for your smartphone. Now escalate the problem to thousands of people and devices.
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That is of course the problem, and you've stated it very well. A PDF that looks good on my Kindle Voyage with its 6" screen is not going to be good to read on my iPad with a 9.7" screen, and even worse vice versa. PDFs are great if you're producing them for a specific device or page size, but they are a poor general solution.