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Originally Posted by ath
So perhaps I should change my advise: go talk to a e-book designer, someone who does this for a living. Ask what kind of tool he or she would like.
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part of what I love about this community is that, though not many of these people do this for a "living", plenty of them do this to make life livable
There are only 3 or 4 groups online that are even in the same class as MobileRead, and none of them that I have seen have experienced the huge growth or interest in book formating that this one has.
kovidgoyal has all ready pointed out that his tool has most if not all the functionality that I am setting out build. I will go so far to say that he has built something that is technically much more sophisticatedly than anything I even want to put together. Honestly, I want to take a bit of the functionality and control away from the user, and give them back something that is easier to use than a flashlight (ok I dont want to go quite that far...) I want to be able to send this to the average 8 year old, along with a decently spell checked work from xyz giant collection, and get back a predictably decent and readable book, in ANY format that I want.
So to take this to a power tools analogy, its rely about what sharp bits to sharpen, what corner to round, and what features MUST be present to get the best results. If anyone remembers the original ms pictureit... thats sort of what I'm looking for in this. It was like a super guided version of photoshop, with some of the sharp bits well hidden, if not rounded off all together.
For some of the people here, they will use what they all ready have... some will blend this tool into the mix, and some may change over... What I hope is that it will attract new people in, and make the quality and quantity of the average ebook contribution increase dramatically.