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Originally Posted by Ankh
Why is that? Correct me if I am wrong, PDF's look fine on the bigger screens , the opposite is not the case.
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I would guess it's kind of like photocopying a mass market paperback. Either you end up with large amounts of white space, and text just on a portion of the screen, or you "enlarge the mass market page to fill the 8 1/2 X 11 page" so to speak, and you get a huge font.
Either way you end up with fewer words per page than the device can display comfortably, and thus extra page turns, and since page turns take a little longer on e-Ink screens, a lot of users don't like that.
(Also to cover the e-book reading market you'll need versions formatted for PDA/cell phone sized screens--which means either *another* pdf, or an even more exaggerated enlargement of a pdf meant for a three inch screen to fit a six inch or nine inch screen.)