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Old 06-17-2019, 04:21 AM   #11
stumped
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Print Replica is not “pseudo PDF”. It is genuine PDF in an Amazon wrapper. You can extract the PDF from it using Calibre’s “KindleUnpack” plugin.

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ok - well if they declared that, in the blurb, and also explicitly said NO REFLOW - that would be more honest.

selling it AS A PDF would be ever clearer.

i take your point re poetry, but in a game strategy guide, like the one I returned, there are pages and pages of text which is very hard to read with only a zoom tool and side to side scrolling for every line. If you compare to a prima games e-guide, unfortunately only readable readable in a browser with a prima log-in , that shows how it could/should have been done.

ADDITIONAL RANT
i have also seen high priced "print replica" music books in kindle store, which seem to offer no benefit over an actual printed version; all you can do with kindle is squint, zoom, try to memorize... there is no way you can actually read+play an A4 page of music which has been shrunk to a 6 inch screen. some are advertised with play along tracks, but they have not bothered to sync display to audio, like you would get in a proper music/tab playback app. You just get some bundled mp3, ripped straight from the CD that comes with the printed book. Its better and much cheaper to buy a used copy of the printed book+CD and rip it yourself!
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