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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
 This whole set of pro-PDF responses seem to be neglecting a very fundamental fact. Paper based information is meant for comsumption by humans. Digital information is meant (primarily) for consumption by computers. Sure humans read ebooks, but computers read them a lot more. |
I'm sorry, but your opening premise is inaccurate. Regardless of being put into digital format, e-books and other human oriented content (ie webpages) is in fact intended for consumption by humans. Computers surely transmit and organize that content for display, but they do not in any significant sense "read" it. You are conflating different meanings of the term read.
Indeed, I have confidence that e-book typography, including fonts, scalability, modular kerning, and other niceties of reading, will advance alongside the public's willingness to pay for those luxuries, and that advancement will bear semblance to (if not directly correlate with) improvements made in web browsers and web content.