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Originally Posted by Quoth
Feature creep in the wrong direction. A horse designed by a committee. Inevitable when epub was rolled into the W3 org. There is also no need for Fixed Layout Epub. That is as well served by a PDF.
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None of the reading systems seem to even let you highlight text and lookup words. Surely these things are technically possible. It should at least look and walk like a PDF duck, or it's impossible to leave PDF.
I think the motivation for it was well intentioned (shares ePub stack/standards), but in practice, publishers are lazy and PDF is easier to push out for them.