Андрей Быдло

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  • Андрей Быдло@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzElsevier
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    18 days ago

    FB2 is a known format for russian pirates, but it can and should be improved because it sucks ass in many things. FB3 was announced long ago but it hasn’t got any traction yet.

    EPUB is mor/e popular, so it’s probably be the go to format for most books US and EU create, but it isn’t much better.

    Other than that, even Doc\Docx is better than PDF, but I’d recomend RTF for it has less traces of M$ bullshit, and while it’s imperfect format, it’s still better.




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    18 days ago

    If the paper is worth it and does have an original not OCR-ed text layer, it’d better be exported as any other format. We don’t call good things a PDF file, lol. It’s clumsy, heavy, have unadjustable font size and useless empty borders, includes various limits and takes on DRM, and it’s editing is usually done via paid software. This format shall die off.

    The only reason academia needs that is strict references to exact page but it’s not that hard to emulate. Upsides to that are overwhelming.

    I had my couple of times properly digitalizing PDFs into e-books and text-processing formats, and it’s a pain in the ass, but if I know it’d be read by someone but me, I’m okay with putting a bit more effort into it.