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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Personally, I'd rather the ePub consortium concentrated on improving the typography support, and left audio-visual media with text to another format.
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How long had we dreamt this dream dear friend?
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Originally Posted by KevinH
all Webkit/WebEngine based readers
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you nailed the problem: E-readers shouldn't run on Webwhatever based engines but on a "what do I need to render a
book engine.
see above
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Originally Posted by KevinH
People seem fixated on Kindle
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Nope. People wanting to read want read.
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Originally Posted by KevinH
Does anybody still use dedicated e-readers when phones and tablets are everywhere? My old Sony e-reader has been sitting in a drawer for over 5 years since reading on a tablet was simply a better and handier solution.
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Definitely. Unless I'm the last one using one.
I configured and thus handled a f* load of phones and tablets for my family over the years. Taking the weight/size ratio alone (with complete disregard for runtime) none of them was "better and handier" than any eink reader I handled.
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Originally Posted by KevinH
Reading at night with built-in brightness adjustment and dark mode on an ipad pretty much does it for me.
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Backlit displays pretty much do it for us.