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A follow up after some thought. From working with publishing software (this was years ago, but I'm pretty sure the same concept still rules) the actual text of books lies in textboxes that are positioned on the master pages, flowing from one column to the next. The text itself (especially that of the main "story", which is a continual text box flowing from page to page) is separate from the background, images, or layout and could be saved in a text-only format. However, the biggest problem I would see would be the many tables. They are definitely not ebook friendly, and would have to be skipped or converted into images (skipping would reduce value, converting into images would take time and effort).

Then again, I own the pathfinder book and I'm not looking for something to replace it, but more to supplement it so I can read through the pathfinder manual away from home (since it's huge and heavy) and search through it at gametime. PDFs for now it is.

Hi. I got an Amazon Kindle for christmas, and one of the first things I realized is how great it would be to be able to carry all the books for an RPG in my Kindle, unlike now where playing D&D 3.5 I have a huge bag of books to bring if I need to play at a friend's house. Using the kindle's search feature, to be able to search across all the books for a certain spell or class and pop to it automatically.

eBook formats such as amazon's kindle format, ePub (adobe's proprietary DRM), .mobi and others are different than PDFs. While I could read the PDF on my kindle it's definitely not the same as a version made specifically by the publisher for eBooks. And with the kindle I could actually read for hours, vs. PDF on a laptop screen where I have to quit after a while due to eyestrain.

Just wondering if there's any interest out there for an eBook format of Pathfinder.