Re:Entire website in a single HTML file
by judge2020 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:08PM
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It makes sense from a DRM standpoint - PDFs and ePub are easy to crack if you offer it at all, so the only way to fix this is to go web-only and assume nobody will want to dig into turning that into a sharable PDF. Bonus points if you make it a SaaS test platform and get universities to buy into it, forcing every student to purchase the 'book' to receive grades.
Re:Entire website in a single HTML file
by dredmorbius on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:28PM
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The multi-page format makes access all the more inconvenient.
Copyright status means that anyone who glues together the set will find themselves pursued for infringement.
In practice, the question's moot as the Feynman Lectures are available via LibGen, ZLib, and similar resources.
> Bonus points if you make it a SaaS test platform and get universities to buy into it
Surely this exists already? It's good and obvious an idea to not be taken already.
Re:Entire website in a single HTML file
by LordDragonfang on Friday December 24, 2021 @03:26AM
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Multiple times over, yes, which is what the poster was alluding to.
It's in the interest of publishers not to offer them, however.
A chief example that comes to mind is the Feynman Lectures in Physics series, which are available online but only in a chapter-by-chapter basis in HTML format. (Quite beautifully formatted, FWIW.) If you want to glue those together into a single integrated whole, you'll have to do that yourself.
PDFs and ePubs afford the single-file format.