Remember when you had to download a document if you wanted to read it, and you had the entirety of its contents on your hard-drive?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFxLq23m0RA
Not anymore, goy. Thanks to flipbooks, you can convert that boring old open document into a closed interactive cloud-bound (((flipbook))) . It has page turning animations and sounds and everything. Much better than a boring document. That doesn't even go "flip" when you flip a page. Who would want that?
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Seriously tough, I've come across this new way of (((presenting))) documents while searching for a book. It made me want to punch the screen every time it made the "flip" sound and page-turn animation. Exhibit a:
You want to read this book? It's a flash app in
in a window of a html page:
http://www.alchemywebsite.com/hrs14.html
Digging around the code gets you a more direct link:
http://www.alchemywebsite.com/Compressed_archive/HRS14/HRS14_Compound_of_Compounds.html
But why is it wrapped in a flash player you ask? Absolutely no reason: the flash player is a literal wrapper around a js+html5 mess that does all the magic:
http://www.alchemywebsite.com/Compressed_archive/HRS14/mobile/index.html#p=1
And all that does is take image-files from here indexed in an alpha-numeric fashion.
http://www.alchemywebsite.com/Compressed_archive/HRS14/files/mobile/1.jpg
Image files that are screenshots from what, in a better time, was a PDF document.
Looking at this, I'd ask why. But I'm not sure the question makes sense anymore.