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Agreed, but that doesn't make the problem go away. The real problem with PDF is that it's a little too easy for a publisher to take a PDF print image already used for print manufacturing, put it on some kind of ecommerce download site and say, "Look! We've published the ebook!" without any further effort. This is one reason I haven't done this with any of my Copperwood Press print titles--their PDFs look lousy on small displays. (They do, however, display and read very well on my Thinkpad X41 Tablet PC.)
That said, we as readers will be confronted in the near future with entirely too many PDFs positioned as "ebooks." I will be looking at different ways to convert PDFs to more amenable formats in the near future, and appreciate the pointers into the MobileRead knowledgebase. There is an immense quantity of material here, and chewing through it will take a fair amount of time. (That is, however, what we call a "high-class problem," heh.)
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