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Originally Posted by ahi
A4 is actually too large for a nicely typeset book. Too wide, mostly. On such a device fully typeset books would either have to be viewed landscape (two conceptual pages, facing one another, on one "physical page") or would be multicolumn (which is still suboptimal because of not wide enough but overly long columns).
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Well, depending on what kind of book content you're working with A4 can be adequate or even a larger size preferred. But, in general what you said is well said.
What I find interesting is how easily people associate PDF with A4 or US Letter size when in fact, most books if they are digitally in PDF format are NOT in A4 or US Letter size because...guess what...the actual books themselves are NOT using A4 or US Letter size paper! DUH! They're usually smaller in size.
Even our Wiki on this website makes that erroneous remark over and over again. The remark being that most PDFs are made for A4 or US Letter size. Eh...no, not really. Even academic journals don't typically print on A4 or US Letter size.
And furthermore, our Wiki here has the erroneous remark that PDFs don't reflow properly. Wrong, wrong, wrong. It often doesn't reflow properly not because of the digital format but because whoever authored it didn't work it properly.