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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
That would be a highly inconvenient way of doing things.
Let's take HarryT's remark:
You're getting tired, now you must first download the PDF with the larger font size, go to the page you were reading (which won't be the same page you left off as the font-size changed, thus the page numbering!) and when you want to read again the next day (when you're not tired) you'll have to find your location again in the first document.
Personally, I won't buy PDF files that contain novels.
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The horse is starting to decay, and so I shall stop beating it. I see text resizing as no more fundamental to properly designed eBooks than scene reordering to properly made movies.
PDFs are the only way to have complex (or, for that matter, even simple) content typeset correctly and displayed the same way. I don't mean to suggest that people should be forced to use PDFs though when there are alternatives.
If somebody has a legitimate font resizing need, let them pursue ways to accommodate it. They will, however, be using a $200 - $300 devices to read books that are objectively speaking (albeit perhaps not subjectively?) of poorer quality than the $5 - $50 paperback edition their neighbour owns.
Sensibly enough, if they have a genuine need for font resizing--but less great a trade-off, if they simply cling to font resizing out habit because early eBook offerings were/are so poor that they can only be made readable by the use thereof.
- Ahi
DAMN! This poor horse.
