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Originally Posted by rlauzon
And when the next eBook reader comes out that doesn't support any of the PDF eBook sizes, all the work you did becomes useless.
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Which is why I suggested handling them through FeedBooks which creates them on the fly and can re-create them for other sizes, eliminating the human effort from the equation altogether.
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Originally Posted by rlauzon
But I also understand that as PDF (or any other locked down format) gains users, it makes it that much harder for a standard eBook format to be created.
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I'm not disputing that either, but we weren't discussing what formats
should be used in a universal sense, but rather how to best serve our members, some of whom use terminal formats such as PDF, and I see FeedBooks as an excellent way to not put a lot of human effort into creating the individual books. Hadrien has already put a lot of his own effort (which I assume is human
) into creating an engine that does the work for us.
Yes, he's working on handling other outputs, but it's not a finished product yet.
Yes, there are other ways to do it than the way he chose, but he did have to
choose one.
Yes, we
all want a single, standard format, but we don't
have one yet, and people have to choose from the ones available, or give up e-reading altogether, which doesn't help further e-books either.
That's all I'm trying to get across here.