Or perhaps the ridiculously high pricing is the problem with electrostatic ones...

(And before someone starts comparing these to audiophile-priced standard speakers, get-me-them-magical-cables audiophiles don't count as general public.)

I think you've missed the whole point of PDFs. They are meant to preserve formatting.

People use PDFs for the same reason they don't use HTML or plain text for said documents, and vice versa.

Now if the documents you want are perfectly readable as plain text you should blame the source for using an unsuitable format, rather than hating the format for doing what it is supposed to do.

Well I have read what you both refer to and I can say that aside from deeper and more beleivable characters and stories in general, Shirow has a distinctly better explanation for his sentient program than Heinlein's handwaving of "it just had so many parts fitted to it". And more interestingly philosophical to boot.

And attacking someone with "you do not understand books with no pictures" shows that a) you have no appreciation of visual arts and b) you have no valid arguments yet want to find some way of attacking someone who does.

And you don't think that could have something to do with copyright infringement not usually being a crime? Unless you mean actual piracy, which often involves eyepatches and speech impediments..