marvindanig

Have you used Katex in place of Latex? The latter is much lighter, especially if you're trying to publish a tome for the web.

You mean https://bubblin.io/book/bookiza-documentation-by-marvin-dani... ?

I run a web book publishing company in Washington D.C: https://bubblin.io

Covid19 has been a blessing to us since all our books are online and both writers and readers get to chat with each other alongside the story they are on.

ack, no. online websites, files and webpages. going by the strict definition of a book none of those online things are books though.

Books are not files though!

Pandoc is great. make and vim are great too, but as you can see these tools will produce PDF files, HTML files, text files, markdown files and a lot jargon that the readers simply aren’t interested in. I mean normal readers here and not tech folks holed up inside a terminal with a homebrew theme.

Looks like the url was pasted twice. Thanks MBP '17!

To HN mods: Dang, your intervention is required. Sorry about this.

Thanks for sharing but can we not publish this straight on the web? It would be nice if access is frictionless.

yikes, those dead trees mean zero backup or conservation as opposed to distributed storage off of the web. this is a lame miscarriage of a copyright law that is outdated.

I think China banned consumption of all wildlife meat recently. Set me straight if this isn't correct. Governments banning trade and consumption of wildlife meat would be a great outcome but for that the note had to reach only the policy makers.

I use the iPad Pro 24/7. Nothing can come close or change that for me, it's such a good interface and surface to work with.

Flicker?? Are you talking about CRT monitors still?

People often read at night before going to sleep. If reading in the Sun was a requirement, one could do that with physical books too. However, most reading happens indoors and for that an iridescent panel screen such as that on an iPad with full gamut of colors is suited better.

> have the advantage of perfectly adapting their brightness to their surroundings.

The surroundings might not be lit enough for the health of eyes. This is the usual case and one of the prime issues why dead tree books and e-paper tablets lead to weak eyes.

Reflective or iridescent, the nature of light that falls into your eyes doesn't change. Low-power is definitely an attribute that I can get behind but modern batteries are good enough to not go underpowered when it comes to books.

Downvoters: yes, you deserve the truth! :-)

This, centum percentum! If 'papery' was my need of the hour I'd go back to physical paper straight. This is lame marketing of an expensive lifeless product that aims to copy the dead tree. That's not what our new mediums are about.

This is a classic flat earth argument.

‘Because people are saying so...’

Proper definition is the only definition that there is. Improper definitions may be valid uses in colloquial speak, but that doesn’t work for accurate description of products at hand. Success of physical books, as in the data, is a proof of proper usage. I rest my case. Time to go back to work.

Edit: Response to the child comment below:

You're going in the wrong direction.

That 'books are not files' is a plain fact. It has nothing to do with popular opinion or liberal usage of words. Although, if you were to look at it liberally through the lens of popular usage alone then also the usage and growth of dead tree books over the shallow market of files masquerading as ebooks will reveal the same plain fact.

Ah, the overflowing privilege of handing out entitlements? Your brethren doesn’t own the language either, you know that right?

Wikipedia:

‘A book is a set of printed sheets of paper held together between two covers.’

I’d say going by definitions on Merriam Webster and others shared by you + real data it is safe to err on the side of proper definition. And HN complaining about browbeating? I mean come on. :)

> Some of the oldest books are written on bamboo stripes, and others on clay tablets.

exactly. there used to be physical scrolls too before the romans invented the paginated codex. all of those older tech died later because it was hard to beat direct access, referential accessibility and format-ability of the modern physical codex book. our current tech emulates the physical scroll too and is therefore not able to compete with dead tree books.

it always sounds weird until it isn’t. the container is the most important characteristics of a book. to pass it off as irrelevant is not only intellectually dishonest but also just plain wrong.

i know. that is great! but all of those options are file formats. books != files. books are cool, files are ugly. which is also why 99 of 100 people still prefer to buy the dead tree books over tech jazz called files.

That's a cool website. Book != [website, file, blog] though.

What is this with "Launch vs. Show" thing by YC incubatees lately? Is it typical "us vs. them" thinking or does YC also promote these projects on HN over others to let them appear on the frontpage much more easily?

schadengoose

Stay safe! BJP or rather RSS is a Nazism driven platform and, like seen in any other country in recent years, people fell for the bait of 'development' and guerilla marketing from bigots of their major religion.

This is extremely sad and I am hoping things will correct before everything worsens further.

> Many people are upset, but there's nothing we can do.

I remember people (not to point to anyone in particular but generally) even the educated ones making fun of a new engineer politician on the rise. There was news about slapping the newbie on their roadshows and rallies where this politician was trying to connect personally with the people.

What do you think of that?

For someone like me with an outside-in view I feel that we have a 'karma problem' with the general citizenry of India. Not to come off as a prude American (this is also true now for my own country as well-–Trump nation) but democracy is so much like a mirror––and in the end we all get what we deserve.

Who said anything about using old trees for book pulp? Pulp farming requires arable land which is taken away from rainforests.

Not to mention how much of Amazon's rainforest have been/are being razed to ground to make way for pulp farming for the dead trees. It's scary and stupid both.

Yeah, and those are called TWAs-as in Trusted Web Activities. As much as I dislike Google in general, they have been good at bringing web development and native apps closer than ever.

Oh, 100%!

It is absolutely intentional that iOS Safari on iPhones does not have support for fullscreen api, for example, whereas both WatchOS (somewhat) and iPadOS do. Apple is quite anti-competitive when it comes to letting web apps utilize the full potential of modern web standards.

And they often use "industry advocates" driven psy-op tactics to manoeuvre public opinion such as the following:

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49589861/is-there-a-non-...

well, that’s not true.

“managed forests” produce high amounts of waste and take away arable land and natural habitat quite aggressively [1]. what you have said here is a common propaganda perpetrated by industry advocates on the web and is often passed on as gyan without any scientific basis or authentic study or source to back it up.

hell, even critical thinking is missing when people write comments like this!

kind of like lobsters were cheap prison food in 1800s story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/emcx69/the_history...

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_pape...