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[*]Uncompressed? I gather this is because of limited storage on the reader?
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Probably. Uncompressed PDFs take more space unnecessarily.
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[*]not tagged for reflow... I'm not sure what you mean by this. You mean the text doesn't flow without a particular command?
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Some PDF readers are able to reflow the text. This, however, is more of a hack than a feature, and I don't know if it's possible to create tagged PDFs without Adobe's Acrobat.
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[*]no/bad metadata... Tell me what you look for in metadata and where you expect to find it in the file.
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Basic metadata are title and author. These should be present not only in the main book text (what you view and print), but in the "file properties", that are used for sorting and displaying data in the library, before you open a book.
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[*]no bookmarks/table of contents... In other words, you're looking for links in the table of contents that take you directly to the first page of each chapter?
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Not only that, but the "bookmarks" are a kind of off-line table of contents, which allows one to jump to any chapter (or similar section) without having to go to the page where the in-line table of contents is.
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[*]print-resolution images... If the file is made to use on a reader device rather than a printer, why is a print-resolution image important? In my own case, the only images I have are for the cover and the author snapshot, but still it would be good to know more about this issue you raised, particularly in light of your first item: compression.
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Print-resolution images are a waste of space and resources (remember ebook readers usually have limited memory and processor) for something that's going to be displayed in a 800×600 6-inch screen.
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[*]letter-sized pages made with Word's default settings... This one particularly surprised me. Given the smaller screen size, I would have thought that either the page size needed to be smaller to fit the screen or else that it was irrelevant on a reader. I didn't use Word to type my story. I used OpenOffice swriter instead. Still, the question of page size seems quite important, so I'd appreciate more details.
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That's probably the most worrying problem with default PDFs. If they are created with letter- or A4-size page settings, they will display very poorly on 6" screens, with lots of unused space and a tiny type. You are right, page size needs to be smaller, but too often one encounters PDFs that are not created with smaller page sizes.