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Originally Posted by markiehill
Straying off the DRM argument for a second, i agree with this. There is nothing pleasant about reading on the illiad at the moment. Even on PDF which is the best supported format as far as i can tell, it can still be a painful experience, zoom implementation is not intuitive for new users and reformatting is a total mare.
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I have to agree with that. Pan/Zoom is a poor way to read an eBook.
But this is not an iLiad problem. It's a PDF problem. PDF is a not an eBook format. It's a page layout format. By that I mean that when you create a PDF, you are basically creating an electronic version of a paper product - complete with deciding on the physical paper size to be used.
The iLiad is not an 8.5"x11" device. It's about 1/2 of that. So if you read a PDF that's formatted for 8.5x11, it will be like someone shrunk the book by half - including the type being half-sized. If the type is small to begin with, it's unreadable - unless you zoom in.
My iLiad-formatted PDFs, on the other hand, look great and are a pleasure to read.
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Originally Posted by markiehill
A good reader has to be able to handle pretty much everything you chuck at it OR provide a painless piece of software to do the conversion on the PC side and then transfer over.
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I agree.
But the issue isn't the reader here. It's the eBook formats.