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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
emacsomancer@types.pl ("(mapcar #'emacsomancer objs)") wrote:
on portable EPUBs: https://willcrichton.net/notes/portable-epubs/#epub-content/EPUB/index.xhtml$ , the page itself being a web-based EPUB.
"Despite decades of advances in document rendering technology, most of the world's documents are stuck in the 1990s due to the limitations of PDF. Yet, modern document formats like HTML have yet to provide a competitive alternative to PDF. This post explores what prevents HTML documents from being portable, and I propose a way forward based on the EPUB format. To demonstrate my ideas, this post is presented using a prototype EPUB reading system."