Re: 2 questions about a reference eBook

Something calling itself Networker wrote:
> Yes. In fact, I don't consider PDF an e-book format at all. It is a
> desktop publishing format, a print mastering format, or a POD format,
> but it is not an e-book format.

Oh, good, a format argument!

To me, such a way of 'considering' doesn't make much sense.  I just a
few minutes ago needed to look through RFC 3501 to verify something; I
pulled up, not the text version, but my annotated PDF version, using
Apple's Preview program (an ebook reading program supplied with OS X),
and used the tools in that program to find what I needed.  Sure
*seems* like an ebook format, and the annotation capabilies are
impressive.

By the way, I also other page-image-based formats (which PDF basically
is) to be ebooks, like multi-page TIFF.  And MP3s of someone reading
the book aloud -- they're ebooks too.

Bill



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