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Originally Posted by moz
Is it just me or is that an appalling way to read the book? Not only can I not see how to record my place in the book, I can't even copy a chunk of text out so I can search for my place later. And no keyboard navigation? Who are these people? At least the scroll wheel works.
Specifically, I'm not so much against pdf, I'm against any ebook that is images instead of text. Bah!
Hmm, for those with a lot of patience, if you scroll to the end and wait long enough (twitching the scroll wheel every now and then to prompt more downloading) you will have all the images loaded. Assuming your browser can handle a page that big. Then you can save the page and view the jpg of each page in your own happy way. All 615/47MB of them. Oh, and it's sufficiently dumb that it doesn't cache the dowload (probably so you can't copy the images out of its cache)
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If you should be running Firefox, and installed say DOM inspector, or perhaps Firebug or a few other tools, you can have it display for you the entirety of all the images as http links, in the proper order; save to a text file, and then use a tool like curl or wget to slurp them over. You then have them cached as it were as a WHOLE lot of individual images. With the proper tools, you could OCR the whole mess.
or we could just write Neil and say "Hey! You love the Kindle! Amazon is using you to pimp them out... Then you advertise a free ebook... and we get this? So not fair".
Worse, it's NOT the author's preferred edition with the extra text and words and goodies. What's with that? I'd BUY it NOW even, if it were that, but it's not. Just the same as I already have on paper, so no $$$ will be spent for a duplicate. I wants more please
btb, that first TOR offering converted from PDF just fine (perhaps not PERFECTLY) to mobipocket, and is thus readable. except for some odd formatting (critical for programming books), I've found most PDF books convert pretty nicely, as long as they are not images holding text - feh
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