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Originally Posted by ODelphi
Perhaps, in the future, it can simulate the properties of PDF to the features of ePub. That would be nice. :-)
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PDF standards already tried to incorporate yet more of the "ebook" kitchen sink into PDF 2.0 (and beyond).
See this one talk, "
PWP, EPUB and next generation PDF".
... I agree with Diap though, PDF is an awful ebook format. There's already too much of PDF's mentality leaking into EPUB with the horrendous FXL (Fixed Layout) EPUBs.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Epub doesn't do what you want and PDF won't be taking over as the predominant ebook format. Ever. Move on. Annotations that are included in the ebook itself is not going to be a thing.
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Back in 2017, there was another topic that discussed some of this stuff:
Merge notes into epub file?
In ebook annotation land, everyone is pretty much in their own incompatible walled gardens, with no interoperability between programs/ecosystems.
In HTML more broadly, "Open Annotation" is a standard that's being worked on. There are barely any things that support this yet (Hypothes.is was the furthest along when I posted).
Currently, overwriting a PDF with your annotations is probably the only way you're going to reliably get "annotations baked into your file."
I swear around that same time period, there was another topic where a few users discussed Android PDF apps that could bake annotations into the PDF. That'll probably be your closest/best bet for now.
Side Note: This isn't getting into the absurdity of copyright law either... I remember Microsoft Edge for a while there refused to let you highlight large parts of an ebook because you... gasp... might COPY THE TEXT. So locking your books down with DRM doesn't help with "baking annotations into the file" either.