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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
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.
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Originally Posted by ahi
... The gist of my view is basically that I didn't pay $300+ for an eBook reader device to start reading books that look like they were typeset in Microsoft Office. ... I think the golden age of eBook readers will start the day PDFs are recognized as the ideal eBook format by the publishers. (As opposed to simply the easiest one to shove out the door, with little concern as to whether or not anyone will be able to read it properly.)
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And I wholeheartedly agree with both.