[ih] Making sense of the end-to-end arguments (or at least trying to)

Kent Crispin kent at songbird.com
Thu Dec 9 09:39:42 PST 2010


On Wed, December 8, 2010 21:02, Richard Bennett wrote:
> Stanza (and my favorite iPad PDF reader, Good Reader) won't reflow the
> text at a larger size the way you can do with a epub book, you can only
> zoom each page. It's really not the same thing as using an e-reader with
> an epub book at all.

Calibre will convert pdf to epub, but in my experience it's hit and miss whether
the result is usable.  Things seem to work best when the pdf has no images, and
doesn't have multiple columns.  A pdf -> epub converter that worked would be
really nice...so many technical papers and books are available only in pdf.

Kent



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