As a general rule, we don't present or archive PDF format. When someone posts a book that's available only in this format, then obviously we're happy and grateful for it, but because converting to ebook formats is time-consuming, and because I for one have many other calls on my time, we rarely do this. In addition, many books are simply not suitable for conversion, either because they have many high-quality images that would make the ebook too large, or because the structure and formatting of a book are crucial to its acceptable presentation, and these cannot be reproduced (what I mean is that
I can't do it!) as an ebook. .pdf files also tend to be much larger than regular ebook files.
Of course, as with all else on the Ebooks forum, is a member has a particular wish to have something as a .pdf, then we'll do our best to accommodate this, but be warned that it might take some time and the result will not be archived if the book already exists in the other formats. Clearly, where no other formats are available, the .pdf will be in the archive.
As far as
Ordinary Magic is concerned, a glance at the book when replacing the link suggested it would be worth converting. I enjoyed reading it - inevitably, you read as you edit - and found it moving and satisfying. Its premise seemed to me implausible, but that was only a device to tell the main story, which was of fitting in, earning friendship and overcoming injustice.
