I agree with you Daithi. There would be nothing simpler than having a large format reader that would display PDFs created from scans of books (from Google, etc.) You don't have to live with someone's bad OCR of the text, or figure out how to get tables or poetry to appear correctly when you do the conversion, no fussing with the illustrations, or bash your head trying to figure out what the heck to do with equations. What a bunch of nonsense! There would be no conversion required at all - just load the PDF and read. There would not be a convenient table of contents, the ability to change fonts, or a dictionary function. But I would gladly live without those.
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