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The worst epubs are bad because some jackass took some poorly OCRed text and dumped it into the format. The best (retail) epubs are on par with the best PDFs ex
by NoMoreNicksLeft 11mo ago
The worst epubs are bad because some jackass took some poorly OCRed text and dumped it into the format. The best (retail) epubs are on par with the best PDFs except you don't have to pan-and-scan to read a fucking page. It just reflows.
For novels I want and prefer epubs, but also non-novels if they were released in the last 5 years or so. PDF isn't magic, and there are bad pdfs out there too, scans of photo-copied books and other nonsense.
- Finnucane 11mo agoI oversee ebook production for a uni press so I am familiar with how the proverbial sausage is made. Which is why I still mainly prefer print books.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 11mo agoThere might be something said for academic texts with their tables of figures and diagrams and so forth. But even then, PDF can be nasty.
- PaulHoule 11mo agoThere is a mode for PDF files that reflows and is logically similar to EPUB in that there is an HTML-derived data model and you have images embedded in the PDF much as they are embedded in the EPUB. Of course if you hate how complex PDF is it is more to hate.
- account42 11mo agoIt's also kind of pointless to add that to PDF when HTML already exists and the only real reason for PDF is if you want a fixed layout.