Using pdfs in iba files

Ok I have a client that has a book in pdf's Obviously these will be treated like images so I took 5 pdfs and sis a test .ibooks file and I notice a few things.
I will not need a table of contents or sections, since I did this as a test I used one of the sections templates.
Should I just use a blank page?
next is I notice that if I add a pdf page to any chosen page template looking at the view in landscape it looks fine but I see that there is another view in portrait, with that mentioned, if I want the book to have two views I assume I have to do add the same pdfs to the portrait view am I correct? If so I'm using the same pdf pages twice for each page which will make the book heacy ( is this a problem as there are 80 pages in the book?)
last question, I'm not an epub guru but I can see that iba is more for text heavy books then using pdf files. Would you suggest I use pages, where I did a test fiel there and it outputs to epub which is fine but I do not have any templates with TOC's or sections.
any help?
thx
rd

OK, doing some tests and I see the following
In iba the pages which are pdfs are too small to read the text in either portrait or landscape
In pages even though the epub looks a bit more like a book the text is too small to read.
now with that mentioned, should I have the client send me the files which were originally done in microsoft publisher?
( problem there already as they have to convert the file to word as publisher cannot be opened, only by the app that created.
But, if this is the case I would assume that I should use iba as I believe since I have to reformat all the text should be a bit easier than doing the reformatting in pages?
Here is a screenshot of one page so I would have the header, fotter then body text styles to do. If I have to do this we are looking at a load of extra time to do this, correct?

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