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Originally Posted by mdmorrissey
@kacir, I understand what you're saying, and all that fine tuning is nice if it doesn't cause problems and is easy to do. But obviously there is a lot of work to do on both counts. I don't want to have to do anything to a book that I download to read, except maybe change the font size. Even Calibre is too much trouble. The last thing I tried to read in epub lost the rest of the paragraph after anything in italics. The PDF doesn't do that. I just experimented with my own book, creating a PDF 3x4 inches with Open Office, and ran it through Calibre. The PDF looked fine, but the epub result was a mess, and I have not learned enough to know how to fix it.
The people here may be interested in the tweaking capabilities, but I think the general public wants simplicity. Again, my analogy is the computer. The ereader that can put onto its screen the text (I'm not even considering graphics and color, I don't need that in an e-reader) as simply and easily as on the computer will be the winner, in my opinion. Why fight the format battle? Why not just create PDFs of different sizes -- or just in a small size for ereaders, since it is probably (?) easier to blow up the small PDF on the computer if you need to print it out. (And why else would you need to view the PDF on the computer?)
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creating numerous pdfs to fit all the possible screen sizes, or one ePub/mobi (or whatever) that can happily adjust ? which is more work ?
instead of using your pdf as the source file, use the doc ....