eBooks we're working on

HarryT · 03-30-2007, 12:41 PM

Now we have a "book uploads" section, I thought it might be of use to have a thread in which people can say which books they are working on, to avoid duplicated effort.

To start the ball rolling, I'm continuing my "Illustrated Dickens" books by creating fully illustrated versions of "David Copperfield" and "A Tale of Two Cities". Should have those done in the next few days.

diabloNL · 03-30-2007, 12:57 PM

Maybe it's a good idea to move this topic to the "Book Uploads" forum and make it a sticky?

Alexander Turcic · 03-30-2007, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by diabloNL

Maybe it's a good idea to move this topic to the "Book Uploads" forum and make it a sticky?

Agreed. Done.

diabloNL · 03-30-2007, 01:22 PM

Thanks Alex.

lint · 03-30-2007, 02:30 PM

what are the rules for uploading a book? I have several books I have put together in rtf format, but they arent as elegant as BookDesigner books with TOC's and the like. Can I still upload them? -lint

HarryT · 03-31-2007, 02:38 AM

Perhaps Alex could advise us on this. I don't know whether or not he intends this to be a forum specifically for LRF-format files. The forum description suggests that this was the aim.

Converting your RTF files into LRF is very easy. Just download "Book Designer", load your RTF file into it, and click the "Make Sony Reader e-Book" button.

My personal view (and I must stress that this is purely a personal opinion) is that we should perhaps reserve this uploads forum for books that people have added some significant "value" to over the original Project Gutenberg (or whatever) originals. There seems little point in uploading something here that someone can download from PG and have on their Reader a minute later. By "added value" I mean things like cleaning up the formatting, adding a nice TOC or index to a complicated book, adding pictures, hyperlinks, stuff like that.

Again though, I don't make the rules, and all this is nothing more than my personal opinion. Alex is "the man" and he can give you a definitive answer.

Alexander Turcic · 03-31-2007, 08:11 AM

I agree we should focus on uploading books that have some added value, more than just auto-converted content. I intend to write a friendly sticky guideline to clarify this matter.

LaughingVulcan · 03-31-2007, 07:48 PM

I'm currently working on Don Quixote and The Three Musketeers in LRF. (Actually, I've got them done already but I want to give them a onceover before uploading them even in a version 1 format.)

friendly · 04-01-2007, 02:13 PM

I don't know who came up with the idea to upload ebooks here. Anyway, I think it is brilliant that idea.
I agree with Harry and with Alexander and I don’t agree. Yes, it’s a nice idea to just collect all the perfectly formatted books here, but I think there are much more rtf-files out there which would be quite nice for many of us. I don’t know if this suggestion would cause too much trouble, but why not open another page where all those files are uploaded which are quite nice and completely satisfying for many readers? So there could be this page for “perfect” books and the other one for “okay” or “nice” books and here I come back to the beginning, I really think there are much more “nice” books ready to be uploaded than “perfect” books.
Somewhere in the forum someone made “Shakespeare” available. I think it should be uploaded here. I have got the files, but I as I didn’t do the work I don’t want to “snatch” the credit.
Ah, I just found the thread and the link: http://www.falstaffshouse.com
And Harry I think you know about it, so you should be able to upload "Shakespeare" and maybe these: "War of the Worlds" and "Fortyone Thieves" To be found here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8532
Thanks a lot.
Friedhelm

scottcstoness · 04-01-2007, 10:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by friendly

I think there are much more rtf-files out there which would be quite nice for many of us. I don’t know if this suggestion would cause too much trouble, but why not open another page where all those files are uploaded which are quite nice and completely satisfying for many readers?

Friedhelm

I would have to agree that even a quick .rtf formatted book, if done well, would be nice to have here. I *love* having the tables of contents and proper footnotes, but to have an entire library of PD .rtf (and completely auto-generated .lrf books) in one place would be awfully nice.

Definitely should be a separate forum, and as there would likely be more books, perhaps one thread per author? Or is this likely to be too many files and too unmanageable a situation?

Anyway, just wanted to chime in with my 1.5 cents.

RWood · 04-01-2007, 11:27 PM

If there is a need for well formed RTF books I feel it would be best served by its own forum area and keep this one for LRF books alone. This may spawn multiple forums where each is dedicated to one specific book type -- one for PDF, one for IMP, etc. This would save people having to sort through a large number of posts to find the ones for their format.

I have been absent from these forums lately as I have been involved with two projects. First, I have been savoring the reading of the TE Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom and, second, I have finally started work on the Wiki expansion for Best Practices in Book Designer. I have almost finished the first and expect to finish the latter this week.

NatCh · 04-02-2007, 12:09 AM

You see, RWood? That's exactly the sort of thing that makes your karma so high.

HarryT · 04-02-2007, 02:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RWood

If there is a need for well formed RTF books I feel it would be best served by its own forum area and keep this one for LRF books alone. This may spawn multiple forums where each is dedicated to one specific book type -- one for PDF, one for IMP, etc. This would save people having to sort through a large number of posts to find the ones for their format.

I believe that Alex's original idea (and I'm sure he'll correct me if I'm wrong) was to keep the "device forum" upload section for device-specific books, and create another upload section elsewhere on MR for "open format" books such as RTF, etc. I don't know if this has yet been done or not.

HarryT · 04-02-2007, 02:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by friendly

And Harry I think you know about it, so you should be able to upload "Shakespeare" and maybe these: "War of the Worlds" and "Fortyone Thieves" To be found here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8532
Thanks a lot.
Friedhelm

Jeez - I'm busy enough uploading my own books, without uploading other peoples', too

. This forum is for anyone to upload to, not just me

.

astra · 04-02-2007, 03:57 AM

Could you explain to me what would be a point of uploading RTFs?
There are planty of websites(such as blackmask, manybooks, baen etc.) that are professionals in this particular subject. I think that uploading only books for device-specific books would be useful. Maybe I don't understand something?

03-30-2007, 12:41 PM	#1
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 55,158 Karma: 27556397 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Touch, PW, Fire HD, iPad 3, iPhone 4, Samsung Tab 2 7 + More	eBooks we're working on Now we have a "book uploads" section, I thought it might be of use to have a thread in which people can say which books they are working on, to avoid duplicated effort. To start the ball rolling, I'm continuing my "Illustrated Dickens" books by creating fully illustrated versions of "David Copperfield" and "A Tale of Two Cities". Should have those done in the next few days. __________________ Harry Currently proofreading The Poison Belt, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

03-30-2007, 12:57 PM	#2
diabloNL Gadget Force® Posts: 705 Karma: 2733 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: The Netherlands Device: Sony PRS-300 + Cybook with funny screen :P	Maybe it's a good idea to move this topic to the "Book Uploads" forum and make it a sticky? __________________ FORMAT C: WARNING. ALL DATA ON DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST! Proceed with format? (Y/Y)?

03-30-2007, 01:22 PM	#4
diabloNL Gadget Force® Posts: 705 Karma: 2733 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: The Netherlands Device: Sony PRS-300 + Cybook with funny screen :P	Thanks Alex. __________________ FORMAT C: WARNING. ALL DATA ON DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST! Proceed with format? (Y/Y)?

03-31-2007, 02:38 AM	#6
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 55,158 Karma: 27556397 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Touch, PW, Fire HD, iPad 3, iPhone 4, Samsung Tab 2 7 + More	Perhaps Alex could advise us on this. I don't know whether or not he intends this to be a forum specifically for LRF-format files. The forum description suggests that this was the aim. Converting your RTF files into LRF is very easy. Just download "Book Designer", load your RTF file into it, and click the "Make Sony Reader e-Book" button. My personal view (and I must stress that this is purely a personal opinion) is that we should perhaps reserve this uploads forum for books that people have added some significant "value" to over the original Project Gutenberg (or whatever) originals. There seems little point in uploading something here that someone can download from PG and have on their Reader a minute later. By "added value" I mean things like cleaning up the formatting, adding a nice TOC or index to a complicated book, adding pictures, hyperlinks, stuff like that. Again though, I don't make the rules, and all this is nothing more than my personal opinion. Alex is "the man" and he can give you a definitive answer. __________________ Harry Currently proofreading The Poison Belt, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Last edited by HarryT; 03-31-2007 at 03:17 AM.

03-31-2007, 07:48 PM	#8
LaughingVulcan Technophile Posts: 192 Karma: 617 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Land of Lincoln Device: PRS-500 Sony Reader, Tablet PC, Palm T\|X	I'm currently working on Don Quixote and The Three Musketeers in LRF. (Actually, I've got them done already but I want to give them a onceover before uploading them even in a version 1 format.) __________________ Signed, -

03-30-2007, 02:30 PM	#5
lint Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 76 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Sony Reader	what are the rules for uploading a book? I have several books I have put together in rtf format, but they arent as elegant as BookDesigner books with TOC's and the like. Can I still upload them? -lint

03-31-2007, 08:11 AM	#7
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 16,292 Karma: 3610100 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Sony PRS-650	I agree we should focus on uploading books that have some added value, more than just auto-converted content. I intend to write a friendly sticky guideline to clarify this matter.

04-01-2007, 02:13 PM	#9
friendly Enthusiast Posts: 44 Karma: 25 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Germany Device: Kindle 3 / iPad	I don't know who came up with the idea to upload ebooks here. Anyway, I think it is brilliant that idea. I agree with Harry and with Alexander and I don’t agree. Yes, it’s a nice idea to just collect all the perfectly formatted books here, but I think there are much more rtf-files out there which would be quite nice for many of us. I don’t know if this suggestion would cause too much trouble, but why not open another page where all those files are uploaded which are quite nice and completely satisfying for many readers? So there could be this page for “perfect” books and the other one for “okay” or “nice” books and here I come back to the beginning, I really think there are much more “nice” books ready to be uploaded than “perfect” books. Somewhere in the forum someone made “Shakespeare” available. I think it should be uploaded here. I have got the files, but I as I didn’t do the work I don’t want to “snatch” the credit. Ah, I just found the thread and the link: http://www.falstaffshouse.com And Harry I think you know about it, so you should be able to upload "Shakespeare" and maybe these: "War of the Worlds" and "Fortyone Thieves" To be found here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8532 Thanks a lot. Friedhelm Last edited by friendly; 04-01-2007 at 02:28 PM.

04-01-2007, 11:27 PM	#11
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,237 Karma: 148836 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	If there is a need for well formed RTF books I feel it would be best served by its own forum area and keep this one for LRF books alone. This may spawn multiple forums where each is dedicated to one specific book type -- one for PDF, one for IMP, etc. This would save people having to sort through a large number of posts to find the ones for their format. I have been absent from these forums lately as I have been involved with two projects. First, I have been savoring the reading of the TE Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom and, second, I have finally started work on the Wiki expansion for Best Practices in Book Designer. I have almost finished the first and expect to finish the latter this week.

04-02-2007, 12:09 AM	#12
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,605 Karma: 926222 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Nook STGR	You see, RWood? That's exactly the sort of thing that makes your karma so high. __________________ ΨΦ! "Torg, why do you have emergency pants?" -- Riff

04-02-2007, 03:57 AM	#15
astra The Introvert Posts: 8,308 Karma: 1000077497 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: United Kingdom Device: Sony Reader PRS-650 & 505 & 500	Could you explain to me what would be a point of uploading RTFs? There are planty of websites(such as blackmask, manybooks, baen etc.) that are professionals in this particular subject. I think that uploading only books for device-specific books would be useful. Maybe I don't understand something? __________________ Only Two Things Are Infinite, The Universe and Human Stupidity, and I'm Not Sure About The Former. Albert Einstein Saving the Planet

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