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That's interesting, I absolutely hate PDF. Lack of metadata for collecting, format is difficult to support, doesn't layout well on mobile, and very limited cust
by majora2007 10mo ago
That's interesting, I absolutely hate PDF. Lack of metadata for collecting, format is difficult to support, doesn't layout well on mobile, and very limited customization (like dark mode, changing text size, etc).
Only benefit is browsers have built-in support for the format.
- leosanchez 10mo agoOne thing I like about PDF is the annotations (notes & highlights) are embedded in the PDF itself. That is not the case for EPUB files, each EPUB reader stores annotations in its own proprietary format.
- Zardoz84 10mo agoEPUB it's a glorified HTML page in a zip file.
- majora2007 10mo agoVery true, I just rolled out annotations for Kavita (a self-hosted book/comic server) and epub doesn't have the ability to store it in the file (although Kavita has a no-modification policy). Although for cases like Kavita, storing in the file would be problematic if multiple users want their own annotations without concerns of data leaking.
- swiftcoder 10mo ago> Lack of metadata for collecting PDFs have pretty excellent support for metadata. If the collection software doesn't support at least Dublin Core, that may be kind of their own fault...
- majora2007 10mo agoI haven't seen this in the real world or the tooling to back it up. Currently, Calibre is the only software that writes metadata that pulls from online sources. I'm sure Adobe Acrobat also supports, but that's not used in the scene.
- swiftcoder 10mo agoFeels like a very big gap in the OSS world then. The PDF spec supports multiple standards for metadata, Acrobat has workflows for all of them, and Adobe sells into a bunch of verticals (such as public libraries) that rely on this functionality heavily.