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se7entime
on July 1, 2018
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DjVu, an open PDF alternative
no one mentioning EPUB?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
unicornporn
on July 1, 2018
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That's a very different beast. Not page aware.
chmike
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That is also exactly it's strengh. Though epub3 now also allow to enforce paged content intended for comic books.
Mikhail_Edoshin
on July 1, 2018
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It's not a strength if you need that old book that has no electronic version and can only be scanned. AFAIK EPUB 3 allows for SVG layouts that can be, I imagine, very sophisticated; still, it doesn't address the old book case.
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