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If all you want is a 1:1 copy of physical books, then perhaps your eBook should be made of bound single pages of e-Ink, so you can turn pages and all that. You needn't refresh the display either, or only once in a while.
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I
have admitted that weight and volume is an ebook pro
As for your soundtrack idea - If a
writer needs such a thing to suck the reader in to his story - he shouldn't write books, but moviescripts.
If I want a movie I go and get myself one. If I want a book...
A
book is still something for reading.
Therefor main dev focus of e
books should be put on
reading experience.
It isn't as if god know what on changes would be required:
- usage of hyphenation dictionaries (as TeX does)
- A font rendering engine (support what the fonts offer!; whitspace recog in images used for text placement) which deserves this name, instead of a web rendering ripoff
- less than 10 commands implemented in the epub-spec, adressing said issues, like the ability to choose glyph alternatives (eg monospaced numbers for tables, lowered ones for text (instead of implementing Javascript
)
Et voilà what i've spoken about would have been already accomplished.
With current hardware.
When reinventing the wheel 1st make sure it is
round before thinking about pneus
