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It is interesting to see people call an image a "cover" and a website a book even when the said cover actually never covers anything nor there is a book in there because a website.

Digital books are so broken!


It's assumed that these deliverables will closely correspond to the printed ones.

If you scan a dead tree book to PDF, and you include an image of the outside, that's still called a cover; PDF isn't broken.


PDFs and Word were originally designed (still meant to) for enterprise documents, not books. It works somewhat for books too but then PDF is not really "on web". People still have to download an artifact, save it somewhere or may be bother about other similar digital book formats the same way.

If that isn't broken then what is?


> If that isn't broken then what is?

Why, viewing content on some god forsaken web site, page by page, through some proprietary plugin, with no ability to save other than taking a screenshot of the window.

Downloading and saving is king.




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