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thibaulthalpern · 05-19-2009, 12:51 PM

I do think the PDF is an eBook format. :-)

Why necessarily confine the definition of eBook format to one that allows changes in layout etc. etc. I personally don't want to have control over font typeface when reading. I want the publisher to think of the digital format as a rhetorical device which means it is a tool that communicates and persuades. I'm not using PDFs as a word processor. I don't want to fiddle around with margins, layout, paragraphs, glyphs and so forth.

My entire digital book library is in PDF format. I don't like any of the other file formats.

05-19-2009, 12:51 PM	#156
thibaulthalpern Evangelist Posts: 478 Karma: 451808 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: California, USA Device: my two eyes, KLiiK, Sony PRS-700	I do think the PDF is an eBook format. :-) Why necessarily confine the definition of eBook format to one that allows changes in layout etc. etc. I personally don't want to have control over font typeface when reading. I want the publisher to think of the digital format as a rhetorical device which means it is a tool that communicates and persuades. *I'm not using PDFs as a word processor. I don't want to fiddle around with margins, layout, paragraphs, glyphs and so forth. My entire digital book library is in PDF format. I don't like any of the other file formats. Last edited by thibaulthalpern; 05-19-2009 at 12:57 PM.*