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Originally Posted by ratinox
They certainly could, but they don't need to. TVs and computer monitors need to work with formally defined international standards. There are no such standards for phones, tablets and readers other than whatever sizes and aspect ratios a given manufacturer decides fits their manufacturing costs.
It's annoying. I do a fair bit with self-made PDFs and CBZ files, and every time I go through a device upgrade I have to chase down the resolution and aspect ratio, then figure out an approximately equivalent paper size to minimize wasted margin space.
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I have the same issue when I make my PDFs. Every time I get a new ereader I end up having to reformat my PDF ebooks. It's not hard to do, all I have to do is measure the screen of my new ereader and then update the page size. Then everything falls into place.
The reason I prefer PDF for my ebooks is because I can know exactly what my ebooks will look like. I use LibreOffice to make my ebooks and all I have to do is adjust the page size and it will show me what the ebook will look like so that I can make any needed corrections/adjustments.
Often, I find EPUB ebooks to not be as well formatted as the PDF ebooks I make myself. As an example, a pet peeve of mine is combining a blank line between the paragraphs with a first-line indent for the paragraphs. To me, one or the other is fine but not both at the same time.
This brings forth a question, what formats are good as a source for making an EPUB (you create the ebook in the source format and then convert it into EPUB)?