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For all those requesting PDF reflow: It's a nightmare; nearly impossible for many PDFs. It's only practical for PDFs that contain "article" metadata that maps text flows, which is almost none of them. Most PDFs don't retain information about the logical flow of text, making conversion of PDF to text difficult and painful, especially in PDFs with columns, breakouts, headers and footers, etc. Reflow would be even worse.
PDF is designed for documents where layout and formatting are fixed and exact. It's a terrible format for books that're to be read on different devices with different screens of different sizes. It does its original job wonderfully, but that job is to ensure exact, consistent formatting irrespective of the display device, which is exactly the opposite of what you want when reading a book.
If you want to reflow a PDF, convert it to plain text or HTML (if you can) then use Calibre to produce an ePub version.
(BTW, I work for a newspaper and have contributed to PDF-producing software like Scribus and PDF-editing software like PoDoFo; I'm consequently only mostly ignorant about PDF).
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