The Digital Public Library of America has re-released the Mueller Report as a well-formatted ebook instead of a crappy PDF

Back in April, Andrew Albanese from Publishers Weekly wrote a column deploring the abysmal formatting in the DoJ's release of the Mueller Report, and publicly requesting that the Digital Public Library of America produce well-formatted ebook editions, which they have now done!

Albanese writes,

To me, this is an important development, because with the DPLAspublication, a major barrier to access has been eliminated: unlike theDOJs poor quality PDF, the DPLA e-book edition is a good readingexperience, flowing on any digital device, fully functional, searchable.And, of course, its free. I cant imagine why every media outlet thatlinks to the DOJ version, wouldn't link to this version instead if theyare actually interested in having people actually read the report.

Maybe Im wrong, but I have a feeling that were just beginning to scratchthe surface of how important of The Mueller Report will turn out to be.And citizens can now turn to the place theyve traditionally turned whenthey need access to important, trustworthy informationthe library. To me,this is a pretty big deal, that libraries have picked up where thegovernment slacked off. I mean, we live in the e-book age. The technologyis cheap, and ubiquitous. There is really no excuse for bad pdfs to be thestandard for how important government information like this is released.

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