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Re:Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get ... by CamperBob on Thursday August 18, 2011 @07:58PM (#2901631)
Why is that? .PDF isn't proprietary enough?
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Re:Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get ... by davidw on Friday August 19, 2011 @04:16AM (#2902647)
PDF is really a display format, whereas epub/mobi are more HTMLish in that they are not quite so specific in how they want things displayed, and thus can be flowed into different screen sizes pretty easily.
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Re:Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get ... by burgerbrain on Thursday August 18, 2011 @11:30PM (#2902117)
PDF is not proprietary.
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