That's a related complaint: everyone continues to insist on releasing papers as PDFs, ignoring the fact that those are still pretty nasty to read on a mobile device.
Sure, release a PDF (some people like those), but having an additional responsive web page version of a paper makes research much more readable to the majority of content consumption devices. It's 2023.
I'll generally use https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/ to generate those but that doesn't work with this specific paper since it's not hosted on arXiv.
fwiw, i know the topic of the thread has deviated, but i share the frustration about reading PDFs on my device. In my case, it's an accessibility issue - I can't see well, so zooming with reflow would make my life materially better since I'd be able to read research papers on my morning commute.
Sometimes users have needs that may seem superfluous and beg for a snarky reply, but there are often important reasons behind them, even though they may not be actionable.
I'd pay $x000 for an app that does some sort of intelligent pdf-to-epub conversion that doesn't require human-in-the-loop management/checking.
Sure, release a PDF (some people like those), but having an additional responsive web page version of a paper makes research much more readable to the majority of content consumption devices. It's 2023.
I'll generally use https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/ to generate those but that doesn't work with this specific paper since it's not hosted on arXiv.