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Re:Kindle Format 8: Announcing HTML5 Support in Kindle Format 8 by r00fus on Friday October 21, 2011 @07:16AM (#3139296)
Wait, doesn't PDF support all of the above? Why require HTML rendering? All sorts of issues arise since HTML is markup based and not layout based like PDF or ePub...
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Re:Kindle Format 8: Announcing HTML5 Support in Kindle Format 8 by yangyang on Friday October 21, 2011 @07:44AM (#3139343)
As far as I know, PDFs don't reflow text. They're only suitable for a fixed screen size.
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Re:Kindle Format 8: Announcing HTML5 Support in Kindle Format 8 by mikecane on Friday October 21, 2011 @08:30AM (#3139425)
There's reflowable PDF but when there are things like illustrations and tables, it gets really ugly and really useless really fast.
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Re:Kindle Format 8: Announcing HTML5 Support in Kindle Format 8 by StrawberryFrog on Friday October 21, 2011 @10:18AM (#3139823)
Have you tried reading a PDF on a kindle? It works. technically. But it's not pleasant.
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