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Originally Posted by Jellby
Because I half-jokingly suggested PDF as a solution.
But it's being criticized with the usual straw-man argument. First, people assume PDF means "PDF designed for a letter or A4 page size", when it could be designed for anything from a post stamp to a hignway sign (or even more). Second, and most important here: if the point is to show a page full screen, what the h**k has to do what the physical page size of the PDF is? I'm just assuming the book is just pictures, no text to reflow, just pictures, full page/screen pictures.
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Did you just asterisk the word
Heck???? Really?
The whole PDF thing--I'm sorry. I don't give a flying s**t (now, that needs asterisks!) what size the "page" is made to be; it's not going to fit this device or that, or the next one. Now, I realize that this particular book is purportedly images, with no text, so...sure, it probably matters a crapload less.
But not if he wants to sell it on Amazon, iBooks, B&N, Kobo, etc. All of those require ebook formats, not PDF.
I read non-fiction stuff ALL the time. I need to, to keep up with my biz, tech, new hardware/software and all that. I'm forced to read many of these in PDF and I gotta say, no matter
what the progenitor does, it's a miserable damned reading experience on most devices. I have a Boox; I have an iPad (5th Gen); I have a Fire 10"; I have all the other usual suspects, Oases, yadda and I have tablets of various sizes that are Droid.
It's just less than fun to try to read a PDF on any of them. It's all that constant tap-zoom, pan-scan read; pan-scan read; pan-scan read; page-flip. Tap-zoom, pan-scan read; pan-scan read; pan-scan read; page-flip, lather-rinse-repeat.
That's all I'm saying. For a book that is ONLY Images, then, that might be fine, particularly if...well, if the readers would be inclined to zoom for detail, anyway.
Sorry, didn't mean to whinge. Reading PDFs on devices is a bit of a hot-button item for me, even
without my obvious business biases, because, as I mentioned, I read a LOT of them on tablets/phones/readers and it just
sucks. And yes, if someone designed a PDF to be read on a smartphone, with larger text, that would be awesome sauce, but then, what happens when you move it over to a tablet and now the page is 1/3 the size of the available screen? No bueno, kiddos.
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