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Andy Matuschak
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The comedy/tragedy of running ocrmypdf on a PDF eBook purchased from Google Play to lossily re-add the text layer stripped from the downloadable PDFs (but not the web-viewable PDFs).
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Andy Matuschak
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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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9:21 PM · Apr 19, 2022Twitter Web App
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Tomilola
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Any word on this?
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Excited for this! Nerdy request: I'd be really grateful for some way to purchase a PDF with your careful page layout—I like to read on a tablet, don't like how EPUBs butcher typesetting. As I understand it, you can offer that through Google Play Books alongside EPUB!