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chris_mahan
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Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting ...
epub is xhtml+ wrapper
pyre
on Oct 11, 2012
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If you're targeting grep as a tool to operate on your data, then HTML isn't the best 'raw' format as grep isn't HTML-aware. It can't ignore markup, or translate encoded values (e.g. & => &).
lucian1900
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But ePub as a format is open and well understood, and there are XHTML parsers in every language you might care about.
bduerst
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I thought we were talking about viewing ebooks.
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