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> "EPUB originally didn't support remote resources and people put a lot of work into changing. Loading stuff over the network is HTML's killer feature." And it
by bmacho 3y ago
> "EPUB originally didn't support remote resources and people put a lot of work into changing. Loading stuff over the network is HTML's killer feature."
And it is a feature of books that they stay the same.
Both can be a feature, the ability to change (e.g. they fix something in the cloud), and the disability to change (e.g. you can have it as you bought it).
- criddell 3y agoI don’t get the impulse for homogenization everywhere. PDFs, EPUBs, Word documents, HTML documents, etc… all have different strengths and weaknesses and I think that’s a good thing. Never needing an internet connection is a strength of EPUB IMHO.