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Re:Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs? by app4soft on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @06:11AM (#23537457)
> ePub is reflowable, fine, but it absolutely chokes on placing images.

To be honest, ePub is based on HTML5 markup.

So, you could place image in right place in your ePub book in same way as you place images on your website.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs? by FakeRemore on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @06:52AM (#23537660)
> So, you could place image in right place in your ePub book in same way as you place images on your website.

I've never seen an ePub with images where it looked anywhere as good as the PDF version. It's generally a mess.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you read long PDFs? by diehunde on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @06:33PM (#23557599)
Agree. Also the code snippets are mess sometimes too.
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