PDF Books are still the Best format!

snap8001

ePubs and mobi formats are great for novels. Minimum graphics with lots of text. Perfect for electronic readers.

You see a lot of books on here that have been converted from PDFs but are too difficult to read in any other format.

Textbooks, All computer books, Science, Math, Medical, etc are best viewed in PDF.

In general PDF's are my first choice! Agree or disagree?

myaddibqizac

snap8001 Agree, also pdf supports 3D and audio. But I believe in evolution of epub formats.

WerewolfPoo

I totally agree. More PDFs and fewer badly converted ePubs.

Joestar4545

PDFs are still king, and for a lot of programming, engineering, and math books, anything else ranges from hard to read to indecipherable.

trebz3

Agree! PDF! Other formats are easily editable/fixable but still require a dedicated tablet to read but PDF can be read by most. Most computers come with basic PDF reader. I know Calibre can read them all but conversion to PDf gets tricky especially with AWZ3 (broken links).

sephirox

i agree. epub usually doesnt work in book reader apps.

umbecono

sephirox No, epub works in almost every ebook reader except Kindle and dedicated PDF readers.

user2212

totally agree

utah777

Definitely not true when you need to adjust for a custom screen size

anonthechosen

For Me Sumatra Opens thems both equally as fast and seemless. The Main reason I often convert to PDF Is to edit my textbooks for printing, adding Nicer annotations for printing notes. Also there way More FOSS tools on linux for pdf than epubs.

madmax2

what type of book format used that is interactive?
e.g. that has some multimedia (animation, video, music etc) embedded in it?

e.g like pop up books

D4rkDeMoN

True PDF is the best format ever 🙂

SilvaSurf

D4rkDeMoN How does True PDF differ from other PDF?

MediaFanatic

umbecono - I use ePub's in Kindle (the app) and have since the app's release.

I no longer have an actual Kindle-device, perhaps it's the device that doesn't support .ePub's any longer?

(I'm legitimately curious, I respect your opinion, absolutely no debate intended)

MIZANing

SilvaSurf

Converted or scanned both are not true PDF.

you may read this:
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saamalik786

Agreed.

Mathcategory

I agree, True Pdf for math books, the best.

umbecono

impshare I have a Kindle Fire device. All I had to do was install the Google App Store [then] install "[Cool Reader]".
impshare ... So, epubs are indeed readable on Kindles too.

No. Kindle Fire is an Android tablet with a color LCD screen and a custom desktop. A Kindle e-reader is a dedicated ebook reader with a monochrome E Ink display running on a basic Linux core. They're different sorts of devices. "Kindle" without the "Fire" usually means the e-reader, not the tablet, and is what I meant.
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The Kindle app is Fire's default ebook reader. It opens MOBI and AZW files, and PDF files if you "Open With ..." from a file browser. It doesn't open EPUB files - those you have to convert to AZW3 with [Login to see the link] or with [Login to see the link].
[Login to see the link] (LifeWire)

EPUB has never been supported in Kindle e-readers or the Kindle app. Amazon doesn't even support EPUB conversion, not officially. Even the unofficial "magic" conversion is defective, stripping the cover, metadata, page numbers, etc.
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So yeah, on a Fire or a phone you can install some other ebook reader for EPUB. On a Kindle though you'll have to convert EPUB to AZW3.

MediaFanatic I use ePub's in Kindle (the app) and have since the app's release.

Nope.

MediaFanatic I was replying specifically to [Login to see the link] in regard to ePub's on Nook devices.

"EPUB & PagePerfect NOOK Books are the standard format for NOOK Books in the Barnes & Noble online store. NOOK Color supports ePub and PDF formatted books."
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impshare

I have a Kindle Fire device. All I had to do was install the Google App Store. After that I was able to install "Cool PDF Reader". I didn't even have to root the Kindle device to do so.

Just search the web or YouTube for instructions on installing the Google App Store on Kindle.

MediaFanatic

[Login to see the link] - Thank you. I'm well aware of that.

I may not have explained properly. I was replying specifically to [Login to see the link] in regard to ePub's on Nook devices.

Nothing to do with PDF's or Android, etc.

However, with that said, if you're going to use a PDF viewer on Android, you should consider MuPDF. It's open-source and far more mature than any other PDF renderer that you can download at no cost.

Scify

MediaFanatic
I would recommend "XODO pdf",
best one I have found so far on android

impshare

MediaFanatic - I got the app name wrong. It is just "Cool Reader". I use it to read epubs on Kindle. Not PDFs. For PDFs, I prefer them on PC with the widescreen view.

My post was in response to an earlier one from [Login to see the link] which had claimed that "No, epub works in almost every ebook reader except Kindle and dedicated PDF readers.". So, epubs are indeed readable on Kindles too.

MickiJ

Scify I use it too

dasbunker

PDF is superior for graphics laden book. e.g. textbook