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kovidgoyal · 08-05-2007, 11:05 AM

Think of LRF as a bit of pre-rendering. It allows SONY to write book reader software for the PRS500 that uses very little CPU power to achieve features like reflow, font resizing and small sized ebook files, all important for an embedded solution.

As for the ease of writing converters. You're right it's pretty easy (atleast as a one shot affair), but then writing all software is pretty easy. In fact the only activity in CS that's not necessarily easy is writing new (faster) algorithms, to solve math problems. That was one of the reasons I decided not to do CS.

The real difficulty in CS, that makes it a full time job is maintaining software, not writing it.

Actually I guess I should mention AI as well ;-)

08-05-2007, 11:05 AM	#46
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,474 Karma: 27757440 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Think of LRF as a bit of pre-rendering. It allows SONY to write book reader software for the PRS500 that uses very little CPU power to achieve features like reflow, font resizing and small sized ebook files, all important for an embedded solution. As for the ease of writing converters. You're right it's pretty easy (atleast as a one shot affair), but then writing all software is pretty easy. In fact the only activity in CS that's not necessarily easy is writing new (faster) algorithms, to solve math problems. That was one of the reasons I decided not to do CS. The real difficulty in CS, that makes it a full time job is maintaining software, not writing it. Actually I guess I should mention AI as well ;-) Last edited by kovidgoyal; 08-05-2007 at 11:28 AM.