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Electronic books update | 220107
The Sunday Times reports that Google and publishers are working on a format to make books readable on screens both desktop and mobile. Why is this noteworthy? Don't we have suitable formats already, notably PDF? (In related news, it seems even the Sony Reader has a long way to go to catch on. It will do of course, though at Thoughtplay we won't really be happy until there's a technology that can be read in the bath. So far e-Ink seems the most likely bet.
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PDF? Really? I would think that a fixed width format (i.e. one where the text is locked into lines at creation time) is a very poor choice when targetting displays of widely varying widths.
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Yes,fair point! Though most useful devices have some way of reading them. Also, books aren't really readable on tiny screens anyway, so book-sized technologies are the main focus - in which case this is less of an issue. Of course, it /will/ be interesting to see what Google comes up with...
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