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10-24-2006, 10:59 AM | #17 |
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For reflowable books, try the samples that say "XHTML ebook".
I think it's a great concept and application. Let's hope it gets ported to the Sony Reader. |
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10-24-2006, 11:14 AM | #20 |
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okay - but this only works if the publishers comply with these output methods because the samples that I downloaded don't allow the resize of text.
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10-24-2006, 11:17 AM | #21 |
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Jane, think of it as two different e-book formats.
Most of the samples are in PDF. But a few are in OEB (which stands for OEBPS or Open eBook Publication Structure). You are right in that publishers need to convert their books to OEB or Digital Editions is going to fail. |
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Alex, if ,as you say, the Adobe reader cannot be ported to handhelds, and what Adobe is now doing is to make their reader more like other readers, who needs it? There are already numerous good readers - both for desktops and handhelds - out there, and I fail to see what Adobe can add, at least on the handheld side. Incidentally, I know no one outside of the academic world (I used to be one myself, but before there were decent handhelds) who reads entire books on desktops and laptops. Research is quite doable on a desktop, and you can read law cases on a desktop screen, but reading more than 50 pages is an unpleasant chore.
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10-24-2006, 12:25 PM | #24 | |
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But seriously, folks, I think the advantage here is simply that it's Adobe, a major player, and if they create an e-book standard (and assuming they do it right), they have the weight and the name to get people and organizations behind it... something that most of the present e-book format providers can't say. (It puts them equal with Microsoft, but at least Adobe has better street cred.) If the result is fewer formats, and less trouble finding an e-book in the format you want, I'm down with that. Combined with a reader from a major player like Sony, they could be an effective combination. And if it's better than PDF for handhelds/smartphones, so much the better. (I'll have to look into converting to the new standard myself!) Last edited by Steven Lyle Jordan; 10-24-2006 at 12:28 PM. |
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Steve, I applaud your optimism but I do not share it. Adobe has been around a long time, and its reader formatting remain its own exclusive thing. If Microsoft can't get a standard set, why do you think Adobe can? There are all kinds of major publishers involved in this, and Adobe is no Random House or Axel Springer. It's going to take a lot more than Adobe to get something like this done.
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So, in order for digital editions to work, the publisher has to offer the Adobe OEB format in addition to PDF, Mobipocket, Ereader and MS Lit. Then you have to have a reading device: laptop, handheld, dedicated ereader than can read the OEB format. Right? This sounds more confusing than simplifying. Doesn't adding still another format feed the "DRM Tower of eBabel" that Dave Rothman likes to talk about?
I don't get why this is better than say. . . Mobipocket or Ereader which allow for a) reading on the laptop or b) handheld reading in addition to font resizing and text flow already. As for reading on the laptop, I must concur with radleyp that no one likes reading on the laptop. In fact, everyone that posts at DearAuthor and elsewhere about how they don't like e-reading equates e-reading to laptop reading. Laptop or desktop reading is not going to capture new readers. It's the portable handheld device that will revolutionize reading, if anything will. |
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When I first tried it, it reminded me of microsoft reader, but it quickly changed when I noticed that color images were so fast. I put my entire woodworking machinery catalog collection in it. It is many times faster than Acrobat. I guess I'll use it instead and set it as default for PDFs.
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Now my MacBook? Or another laptop. Possible. Those clear view LCD screens really do help. |
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