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Originally Posted by cmdahler
And again: it is completely astonishing that they were not able to think of any reasons on their own why people would need zoom versus reflow. These are people in the business of producing products meant to replace paper. Did the whole concept of scientific papers and other diagram-intensive or format-sensitive papers that do not respond well (if at all) to PDF-reflow just never even occur to them? It's beyond astonishing, really, it's well into the realm of pathetic. Not providing PDF zoom on a 6" reader is one thing. I could even see not providing it on a large-size screen reader as just a boneheaded oversight in the first production run, but then to actually have to ask people why they would want PDF zoom as though they just couldn't fathom anyone needing such a thing is just plain stupid.
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I really doubt that they couldn't think of it on their own, but it may not have hit high enough on their use case models to justify it. It's been said before, but the person who comes to Mobile Read is far from the average user. If they expect 90% of their users to do nothing but buy books or newspapers directly over the device than in their eyes it might not be a big issue. I think the thread has rightfully pointed out a number of scenarios where an average user would find this beneficial so hopefully it is something they will add.