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Originally Posted by Quoth
A book has leaves and a binding.
An ebook is an electronic format content that could be printed, which is why if it's interactive, has audio or video it's not an ebook, it's multimedia. An ebook has no concept of matching a printed page, or it's broken. It must be dynamically paginated to match the window or screen size. Web sites ought to have this as an option. Blame Tim Berners-Lee (1989-1992) for not properly copying earlier hypertext systems that did dynamically paginate. Concept from 1968 and implementations from 1980s.
A PDF is an electronic document intended to be exactly printed or exactly match the printed version. The page size is the paper page size.
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And audiobooks were shipped in albums (multiple 78 rpm disks) for the Blind from the late 1890s.
Oddly a cassette tape based audio book is handier for users than a CD, because it inherently has position moved between players. Of course a cassette has to be recorded but a CD is pressed, a digital version of the 1890s disks and like 1930s sound track disks has a single spiral groove played from the centre end.