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Old 03-27-2010, 09:35 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
No 6" device will display PDF formatted for an A4 page terribly well. PDF was not designed to be an eBook format, but to be a digital representation of a fixed-size printed page. It does that job very well; it is a very poor choice for an eBook format, unless formatted specifically for the screen size of the device it's being read on.
Can't agree with this more. An ebook reader screen has got to be at least 12" in size diagonally to display most non-fiction PDFs. Even Kindle DX and iPad's 9.7" screens aren't quite large enough for PDFs that are optimized for A4 printing.
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