We can export easily to ePUB, too, but the e-paper native app will be cooler because then you don't lose all of the Nostr features.
But we have to start someplace and ePUB is easy because Asciidoctor already comes with that. ePUB, LaTeX, and Asciimath.
I think people wonder why we're going through all of this trouble, instead of just adding zaps to a PDF viewer, but... it's already got some awesome capabilities and we haven't even finished v0.1.0, yet.
I hear that. Hard to imagine something more than a PDF when we've had 500+ years of printing press bias and influence from incumbents on how users can/should interact with content. In my own field of work, the scienctific publishing monopoly is especially guilty of this.
Yeah. That's why the first edition of #Alexandria is called "Gutenberg". We want to reimagine the printing press.
A PDF is essentially just Postscript images of pages of paper, and publications haven't moved much beyond that. This is something fundamentally different, that can be displayed _as if it were_ a PDF.
But it's designed to be navigated and produced by human and machine curators. That's why NIP-62 is called "Curated Publications", not "books". It looks like a book, but it's high-tech under the hood.
