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Re:IDPF, EPUB Standardizing Body, Has Combined with W3C by chx on Sunday February 05, 2017 @06:17PM (#13575325)
If you are reading an ePub format book on your Kobo and zoom in then it'll work as expected. If you are reading a PDF format book then after zooming in you will need to move the page around making reading incredibly awkward / impossible.

In other words, ePub cares about where the chapters are and such, it is structured text, while PDF is a page description and what's on a single page will always be on a single page.

Re:IDPF, EPUB Standardizing Body, Has Combined with W3C by hollander on Monday February 06, 2017 @06:03AM (#13578392)
Aside from zooming, most ereaders offer the option to use a bigger font. That will result in a different text flow, which usually works. But it can break up text flow within a paragraph, within a sentence and even within a word. I've seen words break up into single letters, each letter one line.