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Originally Posted by Lemurion
I've read almost every post in this thread, and I came into it strongly opposed to PDF as an ebook format. The more I have learned about PDF, the more I have seen what it can be - though unfortunately rarely is.
I still avoid PDF ebooks, but that's more because the vast majority of PDFs I see are much less suited to my reader than EPUBs. This is not to say that EPUBs are necessarily better than PDF, but that most current publishers do a much worse job of meeting my needs in PDF than they do in EPUB.
What I really want is a readable font, proper proofreading and the ability to adjust the font to meet lighting conditions. I don't really care if it shifts between pre-rendered pages or reflows so long as my book is displayed in full screens without the annoying half-pages resized PDFs sometimes produce.
If a publisher does that with PDF, I'll happily buy in PDF. Until they do, I'll buy whatever format comes closest to meeting my needs. My preferred formats have changed in the past, I'm sure they may change in the future.
I would happily buy PDFs of the quality the people here produce - but nobody does that for the books I want to read. What I won't do is buy PDF knowing the reading experience will be worse than if I buy another format. Give me great PDFs and I'm all over them - give me bad ones and I'll go elsewhere. It's the results that matter.
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Yours, Sir, is an enlightened view!
