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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HTML papers for beta testing - arXiv info

@tomkalei @brembs @lambo

HTML is of course preferable to PDF for many reasons, as long as the papers print well. Interactive reading is best done on paper with pen in hand.

@tomkalei @brembs @lambo And HTML, unlike PDF, would also allow folks to print papers any way they want.