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Originally Posted by ahi
It seems to me that a large portion of the mobileread membership considers ebooks to be free-flowing and reflowable text, and anything that doesn't fit that description to be a "document"...
... which of course is utterly ass-backwards.
eBook reading devices can only handle barely formatted documents unless they are in PDF format. Books, "e" or "p", are content molded into a specific form... a form that is best suited to the interface to be used for their viewing... whether that interface is a paper sheet of a specific size or an eInk screen of a specific size.
And as fond as some people are of selecting their own fonts, a cleverly (or even half-way competently) LaTeX generated PDF can laughingly achieve far better aesthetics and readability (making the book "disappear" and letting the reader focus the content) than any LRF, ePub, Mobi, or whatever else I have ever seen.
- Ahi
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You on the other hand seem to think there is some sort of Platonic ideal in "professional" typography that everybody must subscribe to. "Professional" typography is really just a synonym for "obsolete and irrelevant" typography, clung to by people that are afraid to make the leap off of paper.