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Originally Posted by Stingo
I'm curious. Why do you like the Feedbook site? All of the books are PDF. You can get the same and a wider collection of the same books in formatted in lrf for the Sony on manybooks.net. I personally stay away from PDF as much as possible since I like the flexibility of switching fonts in certain lighting conditions.
Not trying to be argumentative, just seeing if I am missing any advantages.
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Well, maybe I shouldn't be the one answering since I'm the one behind Feedbooks...
Manybooks LRF convert a bunch of text to another bunch of text in another format. There's no real formatting involved. On Feedbooks, since the books are generated using LaTeX, you get a real formatting with hyphenation, good looking chapter headers, table of contents, real footnotes etc... A "man made" file could be formatted in a better way, but that's still much more advanced that what most websites provide. The books themselves are not PDF, any other format could be supported in the future if it's advanced enough to support what we can currently do with LaTeX+PDF.
Oh and you can't switch fonts on those LRF files that you're using, you can increase or decrease the font size. You can't do such a thing on a PDF file, but since we provide an easy way to generate a custom file with different fonts and font sizes, it's quite flexible too.
And Feedbooks isn't only about public domain books, anyone can publish their own works easily, and we're working on those newspapers made out of multiple RSS and widgets too.