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Originally Posted by Psymon
[...] is that if I was to listen to you then the whole point of my doing that second half of my book (in the manner I've done it) is gone, right out the window. [...] And so while I understand what you all are saying, I swear that not a single person here understands what I'm saying, let alone what it is that I'm trying to accomplish.
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We have the same goals:
- Making the book as good as possible.
- Making it available to as many people as possible.
- Making beautiful/high-quality books.
- Although not sacrificing looks for long-term maintainability.
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Originally Posted by Psymon
I might as well just do it as either graphics or PDF (which may well be the solution I do if/when I choose to create another version to sell on other platforms).
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Graphics of so many ligatures would be a poor choice (does not scale well, and does not follow user preferences).
With PDF... you cannot sell PDFs at any of the major retailers. You will most likely only be able to sell that PDF directly on your own site. Think iBooks is limited? I believe the market for PDFs such as this (ESPECIALLY a site with little foot-traffic) is miniscule.
Although of course, you would want the PDF available somewhere for its "olde" typographical beauty with that "olde" style background. In this area, PDF is superior to EPUB.
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Originally Posted by Psymon
You keep insisting that I substitute my current font for another, "correct" font -- but that destroys the entire piece.
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Perhaps email this "JSL Ancient" designer, perhaps if you show him how passionate you are about his great font, he will tweak the font to allow for proper ligature support, instead of the current method of overwriting certain characters.
I mean, there has to be another font designer out there who is out there who is as passionate about unclean "olde" fonts as Psymon. The work is to just find this guy's fonts.
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Originally Posted by Psymon
You folks are clearly in it for the money, but I'm not -- I learned a long time ago that there's far more important things in life than that.
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I convert books as a hobby, and if I may speak for them, so does Jellby + JSWolf, + Hitch (??? I don't know what she does for fun
) + almost everyone who posts their ebooks on MobileRead.
Since April of this year, I was hired at a non-profit economics organization as an ebook converter, so I work at this stuff full-time (all my waking hours are pretty much working on book conversion). For example, this month I was able to liberate 17 books from dreaded PDF, 10 of which were as a hobby. So I guess I am only 7/17ths "in it for the money".
Edit: Everything I work on is released for free to the world (almost all is public domain and/or CC3.0). Isn't the purpose of writing books to
INFLUENCE the world?
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Originally Posted by Hitch
[...] RANT [...]
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Must have been a tough day at work. Go light a candle, take a nice relaxing bubble bath... and read an e-boo... I mean... just float there and soak in the scent/bubbles.