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PDF is already a popular mess, and open. If you were going to reimplement on top of sqlite, the value would be from implementing it sanely.

PDF, unlike HTML, is inappropriate for most digital documents.

What happened to single-file HTLM formats ?

There's EPUB, but it has some shortcomings, like the lack of mp4/webm support...

> There's EPUB, but it has some shortcomings, like the lack of mp4/webm support...

As a PDF replacement, that seems like a good feature to exclude

Why ? Also, I'm not looking for a PDF replacement so much as an actual digital portable document format.

Html is a very complex "living standard" which arguably makes it unsuited for anything but web content.