For accessibility reasons, arXiv is starting to publish HTML versions of papers. https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessibility_html_papers.html 🧵
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I think this is interesting and welcome, especially on mobile devices. It is not without problems to want to quickly check some fact on your phone, download the PDF, go to landscape mode, find the right location in the paper, zoom in, etc.
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Interesting! Something like this already exists with ar5iv: take the link for any arXiv paper (older than a few months), change "arxiv.org" to "ar5iv.org" and get an HTML5 version. It's not perfect but I've found useful enough for reading stuff on my phone. e.g.
https://ar5iv.org/abs/2109.12132
My background is astronomy, where the publishers will probably limit PDF content to traditional things for some time yet.
Exoplanets with radii between those of Earth and Neptune have stronger surface gravity than Earth, and can retain a sizable hydrogen-dominated atmosphere. In contrast to gas giant planets, we call these planets gas dwa…
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