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<blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 7724968" data-attributes="member: 61529">Compared to hardcovers:Searchable. I can carry everything they've ever published in a jacket pocket, instantly navigating to desired pages (assuming they do a table of contents, which is pretty normal). So instead of having a twenty-pound stack of books, I have a less-than-one-pound object, and yet it's got all the books, I can turn to any page of any book instantly, I can keep places in all of them, I can have annotations... Basically they're better in every conceivable way. But! If I have a PDF, I have a PDF forever. I can open it whenever I want. I can open it on any device that displays PDFs. If I get a brand new device, and it reads PDFs, I can read the book on that too. I don't have to wait for support. I don't have to worry that the vendor will have something that works on most things but doesn't work on the resolution this particular tablet uses, or that it'll render poorly, because I have choices.Compared to a proprietary app: I have no idea which of the functionality I want it provides, but since it doesn't provide it in a way I can count on having access to and control of in the future, none of it matters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="seebs, post: 7724968, member: 61529"] Compared to hardcovers: Searchable. I can carry everything they've ever published in a jacket pocket, instantly navigating to desired pages (assuming they do a table of contents, which is pretty normal). So instead of having a twenty-pound stack of books, I have a less-than-one-pound object, and yet it's got all the books, I can turn to any page of any book instantly, I can keep places in all of them, I can have annotations... Basically they're better in every conceivable way. But! If I have a PDF, I have a PDF forever. I can open it whenever I want. I can open it on any device that displays PDFs. If I get a brand new device, and it reads PDFs, I can read the book on that too. I don't have to wait for support. I don't have to worry that the vendor will have something that works on most things but doesn't work on the resolution this particular tablet uses, or that it'll render poorly, because I have [B]choices[/B]. Compared to a proprietary app: I have no idea which of the functionality I want it provides, but since it doesn't provide it in a way I can count on having access to and control of in the future, none of it matters. [/QUOTE]

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