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Old 07-08-2009, 06:33 AM   #29
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I like PDF. I think it is a good standard and incredibly useful. I love Postscript which is kind of a great-uncle to PDF.

But I hope that PDF doesn't become the dominant ebook format.

For the PDF enthusiasts above, I wonder if you guys read on more than one device? I flip back and forth over a few devices for the same book depending on the environment/situation. So I might start on my Sony PRS-505, but then read on my Macbook or my desktop PC in little snatches while I wait for other stuff on my computer to finish. And I will continue on my Palm phone as I wait in line etc. This works great with reflowable formats. I can't imagine using the same PDF to go from a little 320x320 phone up to a 1960x1080 PC monitor.
I mostly switch between PC and iLiad. That said, I'm unimpressed with the double spaced lines between "paragraphs", especially when those "paragraphs" are really indented quotes (or whatever) in .mobi files, as they are rendered on my iLiad. (This WRT Rutherford's Don Quixote translation, which I'm reading at the moment, and which I bought).
Taking that as the baseline, I prefer the fixed size of a PDF. Sure, .mobi rendering might improve (though not likely on my iLiad), but that fact is pretty useless to me right now.
And especially as most of the stuff I read are academic titles, I *really* prefer PDF.
Sure, I lose some white space around the edges, but I can't really say it bothers me all that much either.
For pleasure reading, I have nothing against mobi or epub (though I wish rendering on my device was better), but to say I lean heavily in that direction would be an overstatement.


As for switching between multiple devices: I do wonder how you keep track of the 'page' which you are reading if you're indeed reading the same title on all of those devices.
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