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Originally Posted by All4Fun
It's my impression that the pdf format is scorned on these forums only because it's not adequately viewable/functional on the 6" e-ink screens that these ebook readers generally use. It's a bit of a balancing act because larger screens likely means larger, heavier, and less convenient.
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That's one of the reasons (and it's only a reason because most PDFs are created with large pagesizes, if they were created with a 6" pagesize, this wouldn't be a reason). The other important reason is doesn't have the reading flexibility of other formats, you cannot alter font face, size, margins, justification, hyphenation... anything! Different people have different tastes and needs, and it's always better to leave the choice to them rather than impose formatting.
I like PDF for my own use, and it allows a far greater control on formatting than other formats (since I don't depend on the reader's features for that), but I understand it's not the best format for distributing a book.