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A comment on Ask HN: What file-format(s) do you prefer for highly technical ebooks?.

Re:Ask HN: What file-format(s) do you prefer for highly tech... by auslegung on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:44PM (#18198485)
I've been reading programming books in PDF on my iPad, not because it's great but because PDF is (often) the only choice and PDF doesn't play nice on most readers. I would prefer HTML that an ereader could view and interact with, but I'm not aware that exists yet.
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Re:Ask HN: What file-format(s) do you prefer for highly tech... by webmaven on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:34PM (#18198992)
> PDF is (often) the only choice and PDF doesn't play nice on most readers

Yeah, that situation is the one that indirectly prompted this post. I don't really understand why the EPUB format (or .mobi, or .azw3) hasn't made significant inroads into technical books.

Print-formatted PDFs are just awful to read on anything but a medium-to-large monitor.

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