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Originally Posted by ratinox
I'm not suggesting otherwise. I'm questioning the assertion that reflowable text is a hard requirement to qualify as an ebook.
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No offense intended. I was making a point that some ebooks are not suitable with all ereaders. I agree with you that reflowable text is not a mandatory part of what defines an ebook. To me an ebook is simply a book that is provided in an electronic form that is designed to be read just like a printed book on an electronic device.
Concerning reflowable text, I'd rather have a well-formatted PDF ebook designed for my ereader, than a not-so-well formatted ebook in the EPUB format (with issues such as repeated widows and orphans, excessive whitespace [such as six lines of whitespace around scene break], typefaces that change size no logical reason [such openings where the text is three times larger than the rest of the normal text]).