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Originally Posted by pittendrigh
I'll look into Readium as a server. PDF is an abomination. In my not so humble opinion.
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PDF is excellent for its intended purpose, which is to be a digital representation of a printed page. The problem occurs when people try to use it for tasks it was never intended for, such as reflowable ebooks. PDF is still the format of choice for academic journal articles, and likely to remain so for a very long time to come. It's a great format for use in scanning and digitizing existing books, where you want an exact digital reproduction of a printed page, and there any many books that would be difficult (if not impossible) to reproduce in any other format.