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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Actually the biggest format for eBooks (although we don't like it) is PDF and it is not broken and has never been broken.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "PDF has not been broken."
I work in litigation support; we regularly get discs & hard drives as part of the legal discovery process, with a notation to "print these out, and convert them to tiff to add to our database." When these files include locked PDFs, we crack them. (Legitimately. The original owner who set the password may no longer work for the company, or the files may have been obtained by subpoena from who-knows-where; finding a person who can open them without a cracker is often impossible.)
Cracking password-to-open PDFs takes special (i.e. costly) software. Cracking locked-against-printing PDFs does not. (It takes cheap software.) And once the lock is removed, they can be copied & converted easily.
Doesn't apply to Adobe Digital Editions files, which we've yet to encounter as part of legal discovery. (Hm. I don't think we've ever encountered standard ebook formats; I shudder to think of what our tech crew would do with a set of .lit and .prc files that someone had been using to keep up with their caseload.)
We wind up doing a lot of "convert to tiff & OCR" anyway, because a lot of the PDFs we get are image scans.