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You can bookmark individual pages in PDFs. PDFs also have the advantage that they are trivial to archive (just copy the file), whereas with websites you'd have
by abjKT26nO8 6y ago
You can bookmark individual pages in PDFs. PDFs also have the advantage that they are trivial to archive (just copy the file), whereas with websites you'd have to download all the assets (and know which assets to download, so you don't download the whole domain). Another thing is that web browsers these days are pain to use. I'd much rather view a book in a proper document viewer. PDFs also allow for much better typography than web browsers. And forget about having a standard way to render mathematics well in at least 3 different web browsers.
- inapis 6y agoRather than PDF, you’d actually want an EPUB. All the benefits of the web in a single asset without the format where data goes to die. ePub can be rendered anywhere. PDFs are a pain on the small screen.
- abjKT26nO8 6y agoViewing graphs and mathematical formulas is painful on the small screen, regardless of the file format. The problem is the small screen, not PDF. And AFAIK EPUB gets into the same mess of MathJax as web pages do when they want to render mathematics. No thanks.