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Unfortunately PDF is not an ebook format, it's a layout format  |
I agree it is not an ebook format, but it can easily be argued to be the 'de facto standard' format that ebooks have been distributed in. I simply dislike that term, dfs, because of that reason. It is being used here as a means to an end, and yet it requires the arguing of definitions to qualify it.
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ePub currently looks to be the best bet ...
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It seems that way to me as well.
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But I still wonder why we had to create yet ANOTHER ebook format with all the existing ebook formats out there (everything from the current TEI Lite all the way back to grand-daddy standards of LaTeX (from TeX) and DocBook (from SGML) ...
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Because companies always like to have closed proprietary formats for the illusion of control. It is up to the consumer and knowledgable professionals to fight that as much as possible even if it can be a losing battle.
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As for the MP3/OGG thread, I wouldn't purchase or support purchasing MP3's either. I own CD's (And vinyl
) with my archival format of choice for the longest time being FLAC, though now with HD's so cheap I just image them. I will listen to MP3 and Vorbis, but would not use either as my archival format.
-MJ