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Originally Posted by PhishStyx
You could, you know, get a reader that will read PDF's.
Just a thought.  |
He's got one. And if publisher's PDFs were formatted with 3.5" x 4.75" pages and quarter-inch margins all around, he might not object so much. (There's still problems; many publishers don't put good metadata in their PDFs, nor bookmarks that become the Reader's TOC, and some use atrocious fonts for reading on a screen.) Of course, almost nobody wants to read PDFs that size on their computer screens, and the publishers aren't releasing "ebook PDFs"--they're releasing "our ready-for-print document, which hey, you can read on your computer!"
Most "free ebook" PDFs are 6x9, often with .75 margins; they're only readable on a Sony PRS if you like 5 point type, which is what they look like before reflowing.
Reflowing *at best* loses some formatting and creates annoying half-full pages; at worst, it puts a paragraph break after every line of the original text. And the font size change with reflow is... weird. And inconsistent; a lot depends on the program that was used to make the PDF.