[Trebro]

So I got my first library e-book, Philip K. Dick's "Man in the High Castle." It's an amazing read...despite the formatting.

I have spent so many years reading message boards, newsgroups, e-mails, and blogs that I can handle a few formatting issues when reading.

However, no matter how I set the font size, this book just looks bad in PDF format, and a person with lower tolerance probably would have given up. The errors are staggering and numerous.

Words cut off in the middle of the screen, the original page numbers show up randomly on the screen, often below the text, and a line of poetry was butchered beyond my ability to read it. I didn't expect perfection, but man, that was rough to handle.

Now, I got this for free, so I'm not crying. But I had *paid* for this PDF, I'd have been mighty mad.

I'm definitely going to think twice before reading an Adobe Digital Editions PDF again, and I certain won't buy an e-book in that format.

I noticed B&N has the same e-book for $10. I sincerely hope it's formatted better than this one.

I guess moral of the story is don't count on being able to read PDFs very well until they start to make them for smaller screens or until I opt to get a bigger e-reader for home use? Or was I just being picky?

(Hope this is an okay place to discuss this. Sorry if I misplaced it.)

-Rob