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Technology doesn't make this an either-or situation, and some time reading RFCs really makes the pain of ascii obvious.

Just ask for reflowable pdf. Figures, equations, cross-references (with hyperlinks), actual typography and design, full-text search, and the ability to adapt to your viewer.

If you don't like that implementation, then may I suggest looking into improvements to the algorithm, instead of brutally stripping away content at books to fit an unnecessarily crude model?




I don't understand how PDF could be reflowable.

I'd like a nice ePub, but again, no page-breaks. They'll be wrong for most devices anyway.




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