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>and my experience is that PDF >> any other system for ebooks.

Are you speaking just about technical books?

Because I can’t imagine anyone trying to read a novel in epub vs pdf on a phone or epub reader and going with the latter.

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I am mostly reading on a tablet, not a phone. I think if you are reading on a phone you are already screwed —- if people are “reading” on phones I think 80% of it is that you just read less.

That’s a pretty judgemental statement out of nowhere - and completely ignored the ebook readers part, which are devices literally created for this purpose.

As for phones, screens nowadays are almost the same size as readers and with more resolution. E-ink is more comfortable for longer sessions, but if you find such a size unusable you might just have poor eyesight.

As someone who is super nearsighted, the smaller screen on a phone is great for reading, especially in contexts like bedtime reading where I want to have my glasses off.

I have read many hundreds of books this way.

The problem with a tablet is that most tablets, especially the sort that are good for seeing entire as-printed pages at once, are too big for me to keep the entire screen in focus without wearing glasses. (with that said, foldables improve things here, since the aspect ratio bottleneck is typically width so being able to double the width on the fly makes such things more readable.

Same here! Not to mention having ebooks on my phone means I can read anywhere, anytime. I read more, not less, lol.

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