@SomaHeir On the contrary, actually. EPUB is essentially HTML, CSS, and images in a *.zip* archive. It's easy to edit. PDFs are not anywhere as easy to modify.
As far as the reading experience goes, PDFs are fixed layout and will render the same on any device. EPUBs reflow to better fit the screen size of the device.
@SomaHeir - are you sure that "PDF allows you to edit and remove stuff"? I would not say so. I know only one tool that allows you do that and that is Open/Libreoffice. (I know there are more tools, nut at least I do not know any other free application that allow you that.) And why should I always edit a PDF to fit my needs, when there is no work with ePub at all?
But even so, many LN in PDF I saw, were prepared for A4 format/page. Try to read these on a 4" or 5" device (e.g. phone). At least for me, comfortable reading of such PDF's is impossible (and it is not because of screen resolution). I do not want move the page left and right for each line of text. Furthermore the font is fixed (predefined by creator). Change of the font is practically impossible. There are many people that need a bigger characters (e.g. problems with vision) or another font (e.g. dyslectics and other people that have hard time reading standard fonts).
Many people like Arial (or similar) font, other like Times New Roman (or similar) font, some like dark background, other like bright background. In a good ePub reader, you can predefine all this, but in PDF you need to create for each style an new file. Why there to bother with PDF's?
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