wow I mean
WOW this thread is a karma eater
I'm in fact really happy to see that so many share the opinion that e
books should actually be books and not a bunch of web snippets.
Said fears have already been mentioned in discussion about the epub3 draft.
I know it is my favoured stick atm and I'm aware of the fact that some people may start accusing me of trying to beat a horse to death here (yes - typography again) so let my lay it out as brief as I can:
there is a lot of tweaks which can (and should) be applied to text in order to increase the comfort of the reading process
A huge ammount of it isn't available in e-readers, because the rendering engines don't support it (regardles of the fonts doing it) or there are no commands to do so.
ATM the biggest bonus of ebooks is weight and volume. The tech to do
more is present, but ignored.
Instead of looking "how web does it" all this improvement-willing ones should IMO look "how (and what) TeX does it"
Before trying to make ebooks
better than pbooks there should be more effort put into making them
as good as in
every way, not only the aforementioned weight and volume.
Making them
better is logically the step after that.