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02-01-2019, 08:23 AM | #77 | |
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As far as epub reader development/innovation, there's still far, far more of that going on than pdf reader innovation, I can assure you. It's just not in areas that you deem "worthy." At some point, you're simply going to have to realize that not enough people want what you're looking for to justify its development. Epub doesn't do what you want and PDF won't be taking over as the predominant ebook format. Ever. Move on. Annotations that are included in the ebook itself is not going to be a thing. Last edited by DiapDealer; 02-01-2019 at 08:25 AM. |
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02-01-2019, 01:24 PM | #78 | |
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I agree with you that Epub has better features than PDF. For example, it allows we to change font size. But it will remain incomplete unless Annotations feature exists. Meanwhile, Adobe is already providing DRM for ePub. Perhaps, in the future, it can simulate the properties of PDF to the features of ePub. That would be nice. :-) |
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02-01-2019, 04:53 PM | #79 |
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Given how many books I've owned and read over the decades and the few annotations I've made, the ability to annotate an ebook and have the annotations stored inside the ebook is barely worth a yawn. Just another solution in search of a problem.
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See this one talk, "PWP, EPUB and next generation PDF". ... I agree with Diap though, PDF is an awful ebook format. There's already too much of PDF's mentality leaking into EPUB with the horrendous FXL (Fixed Layout) EPUBs. Quote:
In ebook annotation land, everyone is pretty much in their own incompatible walled gardens, with no interoperability between programs/ecosystems. In HTML more broadly, "Open Annotation" is a standard that's being worked on. There are barely any things that support this yet (Hypothes.is was the furthest along when I posted). Currently, overwriting a PDF with your annotations is probably the only way you're going to reliably get "annotations baked into your file." I swear around that same time period, there was another topic where a few users discussed Android PDF apps that could bake annotations into the PDF. That'll probably be your closest/best bet for now. Side Note: This isn't getting into the absurdity of copyright law either... I remember Microsoft Edge for a while there refused to let you highlight large parts of an ebook because you... gasp... might COPY THE TEXT. So locking your books down with DRM doesn't help with "baking annotations into the file" either. Last edited by Tex2002ans; 02-01-2019 at 10:14 PM. |
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