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Originally Posted by frabjous
I misunderstood what you had in mind. PNGs for every page? That would result in a huge file size, comparatively. And you'd have the same problem as with PDFs that you couldn't reflow. Plus, you'd lose dictionary support and searchability -- or at least greatly complicate these things.
Why do you say that the size of the publication is not an issue?
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The only PDF optimized for Sony Reader that I have is Ahi's "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. I loaded the first page covered with text into GIMP, just switched image attributes to "grayscale" and exported that page as PNG. The result is attached to this message.
The size of the resulting PNG image is 38918 Bytes. Although not all pages in the publication are full of text (chapter headings, for example, leave lots of white space, which compresses better) an "average" publication will cost you:
40 KB * 500 pages = 20000 KB.
How many 20 MB files fit on 2GB SD stick ($10)?
The size of publication is not an issue.