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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
My initial inquiries will be of a go/ no-go nature. Once I get everything mapped out, I'll start dealing with workarounds. And like I said before, formats I don't do will go to the bottom of the list. It's easier to deal with formats I already do, because it requires less work on my part. Once I get those out of the way, I'll start going down the list.
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What you're doing is fair enough - and very useful - but I'd quibble with your terminology. Saying that ChromeOS is "not compatible" with open epubs/PDFs when you haven't installed an app to deal with that file type is misleading. And I wouldn't call installing such an app a "workaround" either. It's not like Windows comes with an in-built epub-reader. (OK Windows 8 might I haven't had experience there.)
I haven't run ChromeOS itself but there are definitely Chrome browser apps that read both non-DRMed epubs and PDFs and I can't see that they rely on the underlying OS as they work on both Windows and Linux for me.
All that said I think given the way Chromebooks are marketed I think looking at the "out of the box" experience is useful. Thanks for the thread!