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Originally Posted by ahi
That will stop being the case when eBook readers become reasonably universal and have to stop primarily being toys and pulp novel reading devices.
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Are you saying when they will become universal, they will also become one size? I don't think so.
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The only (arguably) cogent argument for reflow formats is the desire to arbitrarily adjust the font size at the press of a button. Doing so necessarily comes at the cost of any hope of decent typography... which is the cornerstone of bookmaking.
PDF is the only eBook format. Everything else can only make documents of whatever quality or bad to terrible electronic Books.
- Ahi
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I think you are confused about the difference between books and ebooks.
Typeseting is important for books same as binding material, paper quality etc, it is of little to no importance for ebooks.
I don't want set margins, I don't want set font sizes. I care very little even about font face the publisher thinks I want to have. Same publishers that give me eye breaking no line in between text in paperbacks
I want reflow, I want my footnotes to be on the bottom of
my page, not a hypothetical 8x10 inch. I want to be able to read my book on my iPhone and my 24" computer screen with the same user experience.
If I want to have typesetting I'll buy leather bound folio sized paper book. Actually, sometimes I dream of having this ideal electronic device, that will give me all typeseting you talking about, but then I realise I would have to have it on the desk in my library room near comfortable leather chair and realise I dreamt too much. We live different lives.