> 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.
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.
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).
Scaling fonts while keeping the width of the line the same causes other problems.
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.