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when I check the download stats for all my books, PDF downloads are more popular than all other formats.

I prefer epubs too, but apparently readers really like PDFs...

PDFs retain their formatting better and are much more readily accessible across devices, except for the smallest screens.

> PDFs retain their formatting better

Which is also its downside when formatting is not critical. I want to be able to change the font size and have the text reflow correctly. With PDFs you end up with broken layouts if you don't view it exactly as formatted.

>>I want to be able to change the font size and have the text reflow correctly. With PDFs you end up with broken layouts if you don't view it exactly as formatted.

Reflowable books also do a poor job reflowing content.

Case in point, the free AWS ebooks on kindle are a god-awful mess whenever they add code snippets, no matter how small.

Given the choice, a good fixed format layout beats a bad reflowable layout.

Especially as the choice of layout and elements like fonts is neither trivial nor unimportant, and a good readable code font is not easily replaced with $monospace_font_goes_here

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