yvan said:
> Nice find!
thanks. except i didn't "find" it, i made it.
> are there others?
there will be, down the line.
it's just a matter of repurposing a scan-set.
and we now have millions of those. literally.
that particular scan-set was very nicely done;
scans were straightened, cropped consistently,
and placed on a "canvas" of a consistent size...
all that is important to the reading experience.
but, as you undoubtedly know, google's scan-sets
aren't nearly so nice. (like my understatement?)
too bad, that, 'eh? quite a missed opportunity...
> I know that you can read online
> on a huge number of sites, but
> would their formating 'hug' to the iPhone
> as well as this one?
again, those are just plain old page-scans,
shown at the height of the browser-window.
no, it's the width. shoot, i can't remember.
(wrong. i checked -- and it's the _width_.)
oh well, height or width, whatever, what's
_important_ is that it shows full-screen on
the iphone, which -- if it's readable for you,
and it is for me -- is exactly what you want.
and even though that particular demo
exists as static files on my web-site,
it's easy to script a viewer-app which
will create the .html files on-the-fly...
on wait, i just did that the other day,
when i needed it for some messages
that i posted here. like i said, easy...
>
http://z-m-l.com/go/sss.pl
there's a half-dozen books in this one.
i haven't tried it out on my iphone yet,
and i don't remember if i used height or
width on this script, must've been width,
since i offered a two-up display as well
(wrong again, i used height on this one),
which might make a difference on how
these scan-sets display, especially since
some are from distributed proofreaders,
and they have this disturbing tendency to
blow up their scans to 1000 pixels wide,
which might very well mess up the code.
anyway, i've tried to keep away from doing
any development expressly for the iphone --
which means no guarantees on that, folks!,
i don't even want to hear if it doesn't work,
because i will find out using my own iphone
-- since i already have too many black holes,
but i did feel a need to let people know that
the screen really _is_ big enough to read on.
even for me, which is saying something...
-bowerbird
p.s. and you might try this for iphone reading:
>
http://www.readdle.com
i haven't explored it, so i don't know if it's good.