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I guess you don't read on smaller device. Kindle, for example, with 6-7" screen, is not going to read A4-formatted PDF well at all. On phone, too. A4-sized PDF only works well on 10" device or larger.

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Sounds more a problem with the kindle and its software than with the pdf format itself. Books are typically set at around 65 characters per line. This is perfectly readable even on a small phone screen, in landscape orientation and without margins. Think about it: a typical phone is taller than the width of a paperback book. The space is there, if you cannot get it to work it's a software problem.

Your perfectly readable isn’t everyone’s perfectly readable, and the benefit of ePubs is that they’re reflowable, unlike PDF. Having said that, why don’t you try our ePubs? We spend a lot of time on them to make sure that they’re not “things of horror” :)

> This is perfectly readable even on a small phone screen, in landscape orientation and without margins.

That's a lot of condition to be perfectly readable.

EPUB is readable even without all those conditions because it's reflowable.

(And personally I hate using landscape mode on my phone/Kindle)

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