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by dredmorbius 2228 days ago
Security arguments notwithstanding:

- Book contents frequently get updated. Revisions, translations, editions, adaptations.

- Book formats see change. There are at least some works which have seem multiple forms (oral traditions, clay tablets, vellum codices, stageplays, printed books, operatic adaptations, three-ring binders/loose-leaf circulars, magazine serials, paperbacks, radio serials, cinema series, comic-book adaptations, Broadway musicals, TV series, PS documents, PDF files, podcasts, videogame adaptations, YouTube channels, ebooks, ...)

Generally, websites are less a document format than a publishing mechanism. Print-on-demand-on-steroids.