Thanks!
I very much appreciate your detailed response.
What I don't appreciate is having to do all this work over again.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
But I'm not clear on what you mean by "local hosting". It sounds like you want to create a copy of your site, possibly as a zip archive, that interested readers could download and browse locally without requiring Internet access.
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Yes something like that. All e-readers work on an OS and some have browsers: e.g. the Kindle. This Linux OS & browser seems to be more than a bit crippled. It is possible to have an image of a web site on a local machine - PC etc., so that the browser seamlessly recognises the web site though it is off-line. With Windows you can do this without a second party program, and set a site up which the OS and browser recognise as being located locally at
http://localhost/ - IP address of 127.0.0.1
I don't care how it is achieved, the easier for users the better for me!
I don't suppose that there are many folk who would enjoy rebuilding 1,000's of files into a mobi or other format. Only to find that another format pops up . . . . and another . . .
If the device has a browser (Kindle), surely it should be possible to 'force' the OS & browser to recognise a locally hosted website. Then users can access the files/pages/books in exactly the same way they would on a web site - no learning curve! Free-flowing text, choice of fonts/sizes and all the other benefits.
I may be naive but this seems so obvious to me. I can see that Amazon want to sell books and their primary commercial reason for a browser on the Kindle is to enable people so to do, any other browsing they give is a bonus selling point. They have no real interest in enabling folk to get books elsewhere. I feel that the e-readers which will have long-term success will have a decent browser, and not be tied into an Amazon/Apple/Microsoft/Adobe proprietary solution. But mebbe I am VERY naive
(I like the Sony e-reader touch screen, I do not like the clunky Kindle navigation, I would be rather surprised if the Kindle does not feature touch soon, I think colour should not take over but could be an optional model)