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Originally Posted by Sonist
I am curious, can EPUB reproduce the attached faithfully, and searchable and navigable?
(PDF, of course, can.)
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This is a straw-man argument.
PDF has its strengths.
ePUB has its strengths.
Suggesting that there should be one and ONLY one ebook format is ...well, perhaps not stupid, but certainly narrow-minded and short-sighted. Just as not every pbook is the same physical size, with the same physical covers, with the same physical binding, etc, not all ebooks will work best in ANY one file format (for all of the obvious reasons already beat to death along with the horse). Even arguing that one format is 'superior' to another (without caveats) is a dangerous proposition. Every tool is designed for a certain set of jobs, and while it can often be shoe-horned into some other jobs, there will usually be ANOTHER tool that will work better for those other jobs.
Yes, PDF is your best bet for doing that cover, keeping all the formatting as you want, and making it searchable. But that ONLY makes sense when your e-reader device is large enough to comfortably display it (so that it's readable). And no matter HOW technology advances (until it becomes a mind/eye link that essentially makes the e-reader device disappear), there will always be a market for small, pocket-sized devices for people who wish to read "on the go", and that involves "reflow" and "text zoom".
As someone else said, everyone should quit trying to claim that their opinion is the only correct one and everyone else is wrong. Adults are generally capable of seeing other points of view besides their own, and admitting that those may very well BE valid points of view for some people under some circumstances.