Ebook formats
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:date: 2023-08-05T23:32:00
:category: computer
:tags: ebook, EPub, HTML

This is just collection of alternatives to EPub for electronic
books and similar stuff.

* Why to have alternative to EPub: `The publishing industry has
  a problem, and EPUB is not the solution`_ ? … the author (Jani
  Patokallio) has a bit of problem confusing EPub with DRM, but
  otherwise his point that ZIP archive of HTMLs would do at
  least as well as EPub is a valid one. Except of course there is
  absolutely no reader for such animal.

* `Portable Documents for the Open Web (Part 1)`_ (`part 2`_ and
  `part 3`_) how this is seen by the publishing industry (by the
  chairman of IDPF).

* `Forest of evergreen notes`_ … personal storage of knowledge,
  quite related to the concept of `public Zettelkasten`_ by `Andy
  Matuschak`_. Right, Zettelkasten_. There I also learned `Why
  You Should Set Links Manually and Not Rely on Search Alone`_

* Wildly inaccurate prediction `Why e-books will soon be obsolete
  (and no, it’s not just because of DRM)`_, which however is
  interesting read on the faulty business practices of the
  current publishing industry.

* Daniel Glazman wildly disagrees with the current trends in `Web. Period.`_

* **{update 2024-08-26}** https://starbreaker.org/ also mentions `Commonplace book`_ and `Digital Garden`_ as useful parable of what we are after. **NOT** IndieWeb_

.. _`Portable Documents for the Open Web (Part 1)`:
    http://toc.oreilly.com/2012/08/portable-documents-for-the-open-web-part-1.html

.. _`part 2`:
    http://toc.oreilly.com/2012/08/portable-documents-for-the-open-web-part-2.html

.. _`part 3`:
    http://toc.oreilly.com/2012/08/portable-documents-for-the-open-web-part-3.html

.. _`The publishing industry has a problem, and EPUB is not the solution`:
    http://toc.oreilly.com/2013/02/the-publishing-industry-has-a-problem-and-epub-is-not-the-solution.html

.. _`Forest of evergreen notes`:
    https://www.jonmsterling.com/tfmt-000V.xml

.. _`public Zettelkasten`:
    https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes

.. _`Andy Matuschak`:
    https://andymatuschak.org/

.. _Zettelkasten:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten

.. _`Why You Should Set Links Manually and Not Rely on Search Alone`:
    https://zettelkasten.de/posts/search-alone-is-not-enough/

.. _`Why e-books will soon be obsolete (and no, it’s not just because of DRM)`:
    https://gyrovague.com/2012/04/30/why-e-books-will-soon-be-obsolete-and-no-its-not-just-because-of-drm/
.. _`Web. Period.`:
    https://medium.com/@daniel.glazman/web-period-4472fbfac90b

.. _`Commonplace book`:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book

.. _`Digital Garden`:
    https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

.. _IndieWeb:
    https://starbreaker.org/blog/tech/has-indieweb-become-irrelevant/index.html