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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I would love to see a poll from just the people who have dedicated readers as to what format(s) are downloaded.
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I always download PDF if RTF isn't available, because I consider it the most stable & convertible format. Not in general, just for me--I'm very comfortable extracting content from PDFs & converting it, and I'm pretty much useless with HTML.
I prefer reading in ePub. Or, well, I prefer reading in PDF, after I've extracted the contents, shoved them in a Word doc, removed the page breaks, removed the headers & footers, changed the page size to match the Reader, change the font, the character spacing & the distance between paragraphs, fixed the styles on the chapter headers, set the metadata, re-converted to PDF, and checked the bookmarks. But that's generally too much effort to get Fontin & 3 pts between paragraphs, so I read ePub if it's available; I do the conversion if the original's only in PDF, and cropping the top & bottom and adding tags doesn't make it readable.
I agree that it's ridiculous to think of publishers' print-ready PDF layouts as ebooks-for-mobile-readers. And they're usually not particularly good on computer screens, either.