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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
It constantly amuses/amazes me that people keep harping on and on and on about ereaders' limitations when it comes to PDFs. Lovers of dead tree books have no problem at all accepting that they come in different sizes, but apparently ereaders are terrible because they are not "one size fits all". If I need to read a PDF, I'll read it on my 10.1 tablet, or if bigger than that, my 31.5 inch monitor. Just as I would not expect a coffee table book to fit in a paperback, why should I expect a 7-8 inch ereader to deliver the optimal reading experience for all 'printed' material? As for "faster search", I just searched an ebook that in paper is 984 pages and found all instances of the word I searched for in 3 seconds. That's fast enough for me, and a helluva lot faster than my fingers flicking through pages. It's also faster than my first Kindle some 9-10 years ago
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There's still a place for PDFs. A lot of math monographs for example have page sizes not much bigger than an 8 inch reader but ePubs/Kindle formats handle such books insanely poorly as 95% of the time its blurry images that are too low res for every single equation and diagram. Imagine if every 10th line in your novel being a non-resizable blurry jpg. I imagine you'd rather read the PDF then too. And there's still a lot of content like academic journal articles only available on PDF. I can't imagine there isn't other content that doesn't quite fit into the ePub paradigm. For novels and leisure non-fiction its fine but I don't think it's quite there for other content.
How long does it take for your Kindle to index books? How well would it handle something like a fuzzy search when you can't remember the exact phrase? They haven't made any real SoC changes for years. It's the same 1GHz chip with 512mb of RAM over and over. Extra power can open new doors is my point.