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Originally Posted by John Wheater
NatCh, all you say about pdf is absolutely true. The issue really is why Sony chose to support this 'faithful reproducer' format knowing that what people need is a way of reading documents on a 6" screen that they normally see on a bigger screen. wwwinwwg!
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Because, for the ten thousandth time, PDF documents correctly sized for the Reader display perfectly well, and have some benefits over document types which "flow" - eg they can support proper hypenation.
There really is just NO WAY to successfully view an A4 document on a 90x120mm screen. This is indeed NOT "rocket science"
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The elephant in the room here (apart from the fact that we're in 'Renaming Files!:-)) is the lack of HTML support. Here is a format designed for viewing, with sophisticated rendering software freely available. I think it must be a marketing decision, Sony still hoping to make a 'dripping roast' by forcing people to buy eBooks, rather than read the marvellous free HTMLs from Gutenberg. It may be they'll take one more step back from their first, very cagy, step into the ePaper field (what was that crazy device called now?:-)), and support HTML.
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It would be nice if the Reader supported HTML, I agree, but there are free tools such as "html2lrf" which will trivially convert HTML into the Reader's native LRF file format.