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Originally Posted by ProDigit
I don't really agree.
If you already need to do this for a P book, it also needs to be done for an ebook.
Even with a pbook there exists an electronic version, that in itself is (supposed to be) complete.
Creating an ebook from there only is a matter of 30-60 minutes.
My record stays at creating 5 ebooks per hour in LRF.
Since LRF is very limited in possibilities (Title,subtitle, Italic, and Bold text, optional picture here or there), it won't take lots of time to create a conversion.
Most of the time one has a standard set of settings one uses to create a book anyways.
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We're forgetting the medium matters. Paper medium and digital medium differ. And within digital medium there are differences too!
Put it this way: do you remember when the internet became popular? This was around the late-1990s. At that time, websites were pretty ugly and designed inefficiently. In fact, some websites were merely one long page of text. At that time, designers (or maybe they weren't designers) of webpages were learning how to deal with the medium but with no experience yet, treated webpages as if they were just like paper documents. Nope, doesn't work that way. Yes you get the text on the website but it's inefficiently designed and ends up being a turn off for most people and inconvenient to navigate.
Paper medium has its intricacies (and conventions) that needs to be dealt with if you want the reader to read and not be hassled by inefficient design. Likewise, the same goes for digital or ebook device reader medium. Just because it's electronic does not mean it has no materiality. Electronic medium has its material limits because we are reading the electronic things on physical devices.