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Originally Posted by ahi
You seem to be ignoring far too many things that have been stated, explained, and suggested fairly recently, Elfwreck... so I won't get into any lengthy arguments with you this time around.
I find the utter willful deafness (blindness?) of people in this thread incomprehensible.
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I'm sorry about that, because I agree with you on a lot of points. And I like PDFs.
The majority of my ebook reading is PDF. About half are ones I threw together myself (and I know they're thrown together; they're arranged for my preferences and ignore any concerns that don't bother me, like justification; I don't mind ragged right edges), and the other half are mostly from publishers or fan-made projects, not sites like Feedbooks.
I've read several of the Tor freebies on my PRS-505. I can deal with cramped type; most of the time, I can deal with letter-sized pages with 12pt fonts. (Some fanfic is released as "ebooks" which are letter sized PDFs.) And I know that, if I'm willing to deal with a 4.5x8" book, with margins, squished onto my Sony's screen, or a letter-sized book with 1" margins all around, obviously, the fine points of typography are not important to me.
I like it, but I don't need it. I'd pay extra for it... but not a lot extra.
And I've seen nothing--
nothing at all--to indicate that mainstream publishers will *ever* produce multiple PDFs for ebooks, or even a single PDF that's arranged differently from the print version.
That's probably the key argument you're facing. Saying, "of course they will, when ebooks get popular," is not convincing anyone. PDFs have been plenty popular for years, and other than a handful of RPG gamers, nobody's produced commercial PDFs to fit properly in a computer screen, much less an ebook reader.