@jscholes Yes, we need more epub and md

@jscholes couldn't agree more

@jscholes HTML alternatives are always better in my opinion. Yes there is JAWS OCR, or VoiceOver Recognition and am sorry but I don’t know about Android but I would bet a similar solution exists or will exist soon. However just chuck it into HTMl and tag it and its a win win. On a larger scale of-course where financial institutions and others use PDF by default They would likely need to get around the electronic signature thing. However again simply asking someone to type or tick a box to indicate they agree to whatever it is can still be done securely by generating secure links, or using various methods of authentication which exist now. Unfortunately though I don’t sea PDF going anywhere soon. Although as you gathered I agree. ☺️

@jscholes A new medium in the beginning always mimics its predecessor. TV programs in the beginning were just radio hosts reading their paper being filmed. Early cars looked like horse-drawn carriages without a horse.
Similarly, we still live in an age where a lot of electronic documents are laid out on a (virtual) piece of paper. If you use Word, of course you publish a PDF and not HTML.

@jscholes I absolutely agree with you, and yet I don't know of an alternative that is any better. HTML is a mess for offline use, and it doesn't even have proper forms that can be saved back into the file and work without an internet connection, not to mention European-style signatures. No browser supports epub natively, and even if you have any (mainstream) program that can open it, it probably treats it as an ebook and tries adding it to a library. Docx is proprietary and much less frictionless than PDF.