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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
It seams that pdf need to be tagged for reflow right ? What if the pdf you want to read isn't tagged or badly tagged ? And reflow if only one of the annoyances with pdf. I like to be able to convert my books into something else, or edit it).
While i agree e-book needs better formating, pdf is NOT a solution.
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What the hell???
Are you asking what happens when an eBook is badly made? And suggesting that badly made eBooks are the reason PDF is not a viable eBook format?
I'm sorry... but people need to get it through their head that as long as they need to edit their eBooks, the eBook is fundamentally broken and not worth whatever money was paid for it.
I cannot take any argument seriously that relies on the present utter immaturity of the eBook market for recommendation as to what format to use.
Yes, today you are better off getting an ePub and either suffering the poor quality or fixing it yourself by turning it into PDF via LaTeX. Once publishers start doing their jobs with regards to eBooks: PDFs will look good. They will be designed for eBook reading device screen sizes. They will reflow suitably. End of story.
What if you get a badly made eBook? By God, I bet it will look bad! And if you can't fix it? Hmmm.... maybe you'll get a damn refund, like you do when a movie you purchase is unwatchable due to some technical error.
People just seem rabidly keen on preserving the current utterly ludicrous status quo of paying for the privilege to fix eBooks put out by multi-million dollar publishers (and others).
- Ahi