An unintuitive secret of reading books on computers: reading PDFs with original typesetting is much better than reading ebooks, which treat text like a 4chan shitposter and have impoverished reading software.
But… where to get the PDFs?! A survey & suggestions for future work:
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Do you think it isn’t plausible for epub readers to improve their typography and layout enough to be worthwhile? As I’ve gotten into my 40s, being able to adjust text size and reflow content to fit the device I’m reading on had been a godsend.
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It’s plausible!
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I'm reliably informed that ( and others) are doing some nice work on the ebook front, and & co built arxiv-vanity.com a few years back which I think is probably the definitive answer to the OP. 😊
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(I unsurprisingly disagree with the premise that PDF is a good format - the problem is in a dearth of careful effort put into typography and layout on web-driven systems; it's absolutely possible to do well)
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Also, if you accept the premise of re-flowable text (which I think we should) you inherently let go of a certain amount of typographical precision. It’s just part of the deal.
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Yes, agreed. I expect it’s possible to achieve good typesetting and also re-flow. My comments were about what exists now rather than about what the formats necessarily entail; I very much hope you or others will change that situation!
Not sure whether it will ever make it to the “real world” but in a corner of the TeX world, Martin Ruckert has been modifying TeX for display on mobile devices. Video from earlier this year: youtube.com/watch?v=Bj0IZ9
(See more at hint.userweb.mwn.de and tug.org/TUGboat/Conten)