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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
That is exactly the reason why I do not want to have an attempted copy of a paper book on a reader.
The reader cannot. He cannot compensate for the font widths - what he does is change the space widths and I find the result just horrible, it disturbs my reading flow so much that I have to read word for word instead of taking a block at once.
And I don't enjoy reading this.
With the layout I chose, it works again.
It doesn't look nice, but neither does a pBook simulation.
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A b/w paper book simulation works great for me for the last 10 years (on 10" eink screens and lcd tablets), and for the last few years on 300dpi 8" eink screens as well, using Koreader app (or KPV viewer on Kindle DXG).
I'd simply scan a book in about an hour or two (using flatbed or overhead scanner) and then in about an hour or two my computer will create ocr-ed pdf from those images, usually using Acrobat's ClearScan OCR engine.
Resulting pdf size will be about 2 MB per 100 pages of my average book (containing text and dozen of pictures) i.e. about 10 MB for 500 page book.
Books and comics can be in smaller A5 sized or a bigger A4 format; A4 one column document can be read in landscape (without blank margins) whereas A4 two column documents can be read either in portraite mode (four screens per page) or landscape (two screens per page).
I don't use pdf reflow mode because I usually need 100% accuracy for the fonts (letters, numbers, symbols, formulas ...) and page layout.
For color magazines, comics and color books (full of colored charts, diagrams, pictures ...) I'd use lcd tablet instead or notebook/pc-monitor, hoping for the emergence of an affordable and relatively quick 10" color e-paper in the next couple of years.