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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
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.
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I don't have a Kindle, I have a Kobo, so no onboard indexing at all. And I I never said there wasn't a a place for PDFs, just that that place is not my eink reader. Different tools for different tasks