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Oh, my favourite format during my undergraduate time! Most books in mathematics and physics (some old and niche) were available in the "Russian library". At t
by stared 8mo ago
Oh, my favourite format during my undergraduate time!
Most books in mathematics and physics (some old and niche) were available in the "Russian library".
At the same time, I haven't yet seen DjVu used in a legit way.
- cxr 8mo agoLicensing concerns resulted in DjVu being originally preferred over PDF by archive.org and WMF projects like Wikipedia. With baseline PDF now being unencumbered and the widespread existence of FOSS readers, PDF is both the de jure and de facto standard across even those sites.
- gwern 8mo agoAlso, PDF caught up on size with JBIG2, and tooling/support keeps getting worse. (Not so fun fact: if you punch "filetype:djvu" into Google right now, you can easily page through what supposedly is every DjVu file on the Internet as far as Google knows, which is not many: "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 300 already displayed." I learned this the hard way when I began wondering why a bunch of DjVu fulltexts I hosted never seemed to show up in Google or Google Scholar...)
- Rochus 8mo agoI'm usign DJVU files every day. It's just a great format. I have a lot of archived documents which are much faster to use and require much less space than equivalent PDF documents.