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It's a cool feature because it makes the papers more finable, more easily navigatable, easier to read online and faster to scroll through. I am also happy for b
by jll29 3y ago
It's a cool feature because it makes the papers more finable, more easily navigatable, easier to read online and faster to scroll through.
I am also happy for blind people that they can more easily use ArXive with Braille readers now.
(I'm still a fan of printing the PDFs, because I annotate on paper and refer
to page numbers, but the HTML feature is in addition to PDF download, not a replacement.)
One thing that still sucks (not ArXiv related though) is reading mathematical formulae on the Kindle - wonder if someone with rendering expertise could have a look into the MOBI format.
- isaacfung 3y agoThis would never happen but in an ideal world, we should be able to click on a citation to jump to the part of the paper that is being referenced and each paper page should have a discussion board so we can easily communicate with the authors and group the discussion in one place instead of us having to google to see if there is relevant discussion on twitter/reddit. We can even put links to talks, tutorials, blogs, github repo, demo, paperswithcode/google scholar/open review, background material, a timeline of citations in tree form on the same page(actually I am seeing more machine learning papers that have a project page that does some of these) or even turn it into a mini wiki. I just think html has so much more potential(especially now with LLM we can do semantic search). I wonder if there would be interest in such a chrom extension overlay. Related projects: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo https://github.com/dginev/ar5iv https://github.com/dginev/ar5iv https://academ.us/article/2111.15588/ https://academ.us/article/2111.15588/ (powered by https://github.com/jgm/pandoc https://github.com/jgm/pandoc I believe)
- me_jumper 3y agoI think https://web.hypothes.is/ https://web.hypothes.is/ would be of interest to you.