No need to use TeX for input. What is needed is for the layout engines for the ebooks readers to be improved to do proper paragraph and page level optimisations, including justification, hyphenation and widow/orphan control.
It wasn't possible on Palm PDAs because of processing limits, it certainly should be possible on recent dedicated ebook readers and software, it just hasn't been done.
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Originally Posted by cmdahler
Ultimately, the final solution to this problem with ereaders is for someone to incorporate TeX as a core display engine. The text of the book would exist on the reader as a basic TeX file with emphasis markings and any other special typesetting instructions, and when the user selects that book to read, the TeX engine generates typeset text on the fly. If you want to zoom, TeX simply regenerates the typeset with a larger font size, thus preserving all of the professional quality typesetting TeX is known for while producing a larger output.
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