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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Cool idea 
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There can exist sane discourse in this thread... who knew?!
On that cool idea... I have a Hungarian CYO style book that I personally typeset and linked in a 6" sized PDF. It's beautiful, it's functional. It is by no means 100% the same as the paper version... but it gives the same visual "atmosphere" and is as delightful to read as the original paper edition was back when I was a child.
Any format with no strict sense of "pages" could not do an equally sharp-looking version. Hell... LaTeX couldn't do it either... not without me going in to manually fix things up after I saw what was wrong with the originally auto-generated PDF.
Which is ever my point about why reflow cannot but be substandard. When the layout or the font-size changes, typographic and layout errors are born and it takes a human being to fix them--neither software nor hardware will ever be able to do so authoritatively, until it is fully on par with a human mind... which I do not expect even in my grandchildrens' lifetime.
Again, I agree that this doesn't always makes a huge difference with plain fiction... but
books are, as I emphasized earlier, neither just nor even primarily fiction (even if the majority of books are fiction).
- Ahi