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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
The email aspect is irrelevant. It's for proofing paper documents on screen and ensuring they print identically anywhere.
MS Doc and other WP formats certainly don't because local fonts, version of editor, OS and printer affect the rendering.
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Exactly. PDF is what's known as a page description language: it describes the appearance of each individual page and the appearance of every element on each page. Formats like HTML and MOBI are markup languages (this is the "ML" in HTML): they describe how the text is presented.
E-book readers and web browsers are essentially the same thing: they render marked-up text and format it for the constraints of the device. Digital paper devices like Sony's PDF DPT series work like printers: they present pages exactly as they were typeset.
So it's like FrustratedReader said: if you want an e-Ink "printer" then something big like the DPT series is what you want. But if you want an e-book reader then those e-Ink printers are exactly what you *don't* want.