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> I personally like to purchase books that are in PDF format, not epub/mobi PDF is abysmal for books though. 1) You can't scale fonts to fit various screen siz
by ernst_klim 6y ago
> I personally like to purchase books that are in PDF format, not epub/mobi
PDF is abysmal for books though. 1) You can't scale fonts to fit various screen sizes. 2) It's waaay more expensive to interpret and render, so it affects battery life.
- cjsawyer 6y agoAnd yet, I prefer it. Textbooks in any other format are miserable to read.
- Ar-Curunir 6y agoTextbooks are different from other kinds of books in that you have formulae and figures that can't easily be reflowed.
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- systemvoltage 6y ago1) That's a feature, not a bug :) 2) Agreed, but that's a challenge for the engineers, not something we should blame the user for. Users have unequivocally spoken (Look up reviews for epub programming books on Amazon, usually they just want a PDF).
- cratermoon 6y agoNot being able to scale the fonts for different resolutions is something only a young person with 20/20 vision would thinks is a feature.
- systemvoltage 6y agoYou can zoom the whole thing. Scaling fonts while keeping the width of the line the same causes other problems.
- sjy 6y ago> It's waaay more expensive to interpret and render, so it affects battery life. Interesting – I never noticed a difference in battery life when I was reading MOBIs and PDFs on my Kindle, but the slow refresh rate made scrolling through PDFs a nightmare. I do notice that reading PDFs on my iPad is very light on battery compared to reading web pages, but that’s because those web pages are running a bunch of JavaScript and using my internet connection, whereas with a PDF I download it once and then read it for hours.