Portable EPUBs(willcrichton.net)
551 points by sohkamyung | 213 comments
Will Crichton's essay arguing PDF limits modern documents and proposing portable EPUBs as an HTML-based alternative, shown in a prototype EPUB reader.
First screen, captured .
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