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It depends on what kind of book it is. Fiction EPUB all day. Technical books with figures, tables or code listings, PDF!

• eleveriven 2y ago
  Exactly! EPUBs are great for novels or anything you just want to read line-by-line
  • lxgr 2y ago
    They're really great for anything I want to read on my phone, including technical books. I'll take a slightly-less-great ePub over a PDF I have to scroll around or use terrible reflow heuristics via some reader any day.
    • zargon 2y ago
      Really, the point is, why can't we have both? I use and enjoy epubs extensively, but also in many contexts I strongly prefer PDF.
      • lxgr 2y ago
        Getting a passable PDF from an ePub is probably significantly easier than the reverse, so I'm all for having both, yes! (And please don't charge me twice for the privilege, publishers.)
      • eleveriven 2y ago
        Each format has its strengths
    • eleveriven 2y ago
      PDFs on smaller screens - it’s like wrestling with the page just to read a single line