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View Poll Results: Would you like to see (and contribute with) book uploads for other e-readers? | |||
Add a new Book Uploads section for multiple formats | 21 | 63.64% | |
Add a new Book Uploads section specific for the iRex iLiad | 12 | 36.36% | |
I have handmade public domain books I'd like to upload and share | 9 | 27.27% | |
I'd love to download handmade public domain e-books | 16 | 48.48% | |
More comments (please explain in your post) | 5 | 15.15% | |
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06-13-2007, 07:59 AM | #46 |
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Don't expect a "one format to rule them all" any time soon.
There's 2 reasons for this: - reflowable formats and fixed version are both needed for the moment. As long as reflowable formats won't provide hyphenation and more advanced typesetting, PDF and similar formats will be the alternative. - DRM: both publishers and hardware manufacturers will use DRM. Right now, Mobipocket and LRF are already in competition for this market. The first problem could be fixed if all e-ink readers adopted much more advanced software for rendering reflowable formats. But for hyphenation, you need a dictionnary, so the problem isn't necessarily that simple: for each book, you need to know it's language. I'm not sure that the metadata of every reflowable format contain this information. |
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Given all the various reflowable ebook formats today, which one(s) do you feel are the best ones (ignoring the DRM issue)? |
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06-13-2007, 09:11 AM | #48 | |
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As a format for a specific reader it makes perfect sense -- except for a publisher who expects to make money out of handcrafting books. |
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06-13-2007, 09:20 AM | #49 |
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If you guys agree with me, this is how we'll do it:
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06-13-2007, 09:24 AM | #50 |
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The question of HTML/dynamic vs. PDF/static page is a question of what an ebook should be. Static means the ebook should be just like a paper book with only minor enhancements wheras dynamic content tries to introduce new features to the reading process. Which one will win is impossible to predict.
Soft hyphens do work in modern browsers so the HTML source could be augmented by shy entities. |
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This is a good suggestion and I am planning on doing this. Thanks!
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I could easily enable Feedbooks to communicate with other websites too, using XML or even a full REST service. This way, people could find both handmade books and books available on Feedbooks using the same interface.
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06-13-2007, 12:30 PM | #56 | |
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We've already covered the reader physical size issue. But there is great benefit to allowing the reader to choose how the book is formatted. A person who has trouble reading italics, for example, can tell the eBook reader to replace italics with a different font - making it much easier to read. Also, someone who has good eyesight can opt for smaller text, while people with not-so-good eyesight can opt for larger text. |
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That's the problem with translation - some data is usually filtered out. For example, a OpenDoc that's translated to a PDF. The PDF does not contain paragraph breaks anymore. PDF didn't need that information, so there was no provision made for it. So when translating a PDF back to an OpenDoc, someone has to provide that paragraph break information. What I want is to eliminate the need for any translation process. |
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They were going from PDF, running pdftohtml and using the resulting html file to create a LIT file.
The problem was the original source for the LIT was a PDF document. So no paragraph markers were there. Too many to count. |
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