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Originally Posted by OtinG
PDFs are not good on any platform, ever... PDFs were designed in the print and fax era of the 1980s for businesses to have a way to pass along printed/faxed documents without having to take them to a copy machine. PDFs were never really designed for what they have become, and as such they are an ancient technology that has been half-a$$ed updated over the decades to make them sort of work for today's needs.
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I must disagree. PDFs are excellent for the task they were designed for, which is to be a digital representation of the printed page. As such, they are a very good method indeed for preserving digitised versions of specific printed books (ie “page scan” PDFs. In my field of academia, Egyptology, PDFs provide an excellent digitising format for books which are long out of print. Many of the books I refer to frequently are widely disseminated in PDF format and would otherwise be available only in major university libraries.
PDFs “work” very well indeed on large-screen tablets such as an iPad. Long live PDF!