Thread: NYT: Big screen Kindle could arrive this week
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Old 05-06-2009, 08:47 AM   #117
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Originally Posted by Sonist View Post
I am with you on this.

PDF would be the best format for a large screen, since it can preserve the fonts and layout as the publisher intended them to be. Like a printed page, if you will. If there is screen-size standardization, then we are set.

Ideally, PDF would have been an open source format, but it's not, and it's the best I've seen out there.

I don't get the need for yet another format, like EPUB, which seems to bring less to the table, to boot.
PDF is a fixed format. The page is as the page is. ePub is reflowable and a preperly made ePub can look good on a 6" eink screen or a 9.7" eink screen. That makes epub the better choice for reading. Plus, ePub can have different fonts and font sizes. PDF was never designed to be an eBook format.
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