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r00fus
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Kindle Format 8: Announcing HTML5 Support in Kindl...
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...
yangyang
on Oct 21, 2011
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As far as I know, PDFs don't reflow text. They're only suitable for a fixed screen size.
mikecane
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There's reflowable PDF but when there are things like illustrations and tables, it gets really ugly and really useless really fast.
StrawberryFrog
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Have you tried reading a PDF on a kindle? It
works
. technically. But it's not pleasant.
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