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Old 12-05-2008, 08:56 AM   #1
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True Names - Rosenbaum and Doctorow
From the Fast Forward 2 anthology, "True Names" novella by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow.
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There were only a finite number of computational cycles left in all of the universe that was timelike to Beebe. Every one of them, every single step in the dance of all those particles, was Beebe in potentia—could be a thought, a dream, a joy of Beebeself.
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Old 12-05-2008, 02:40 PM   #2
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From the comments section here there may be a cleaned-up HTML version out there soon.
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Old 12-05-2008, 03:54 PM   #3
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And I find it amusing that Doctorow says
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(How's this for embarrassing: none of us can find an editable file with the final, copyedited text, just the PDF from the book. There's a remix-challenge for ya: turn the PDF back into ASCII or HTML or something sensible!)
Here's another real case for an un-PDF utility!
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From the comments section here there may be a cleaned-up HTML version out there soon.
Try this .html created from the .pdf using Mobipocket Creator (see below .zip). There is a .prc version in there, as well.

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File Type: zip TrueNames.zip (391.5 KB, 235 views)
File Type: imp TrueNames.imp (170.3 KB, 243 views)
File Type: imp TrueNames_1200.imp (153.7 KB, 212 views)
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Old 12-06-2008, 03:49 AM   #5
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Farly nice, nrapallo. But both HTML versions have some odd sentence breaks in two places: at the middle and towards the end.

If I ever get to a place where I have time to work on it, I could clean up those section.

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Old 12-06-2008, 09:52 AM   #6
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Farly nice, nrapallo. But both HTML versions have some odd sentence breaks in two places: at the middle and towards the end.

If I ever get to a place where I have time to work on it, I could clean up those section.

Thanks!
I noticed that line/sentence break problem at the end and fixed it somewhat for the .imp versions I posted. I didn't notice the problem in the middle, but didn't look too closely either.

This was just a 'proof-of-concept' that was to show how easily/effectively Mobipocket Creator can convert a .pdf to .html (if it was originally in a word-processor fomat like Word).

The conversion from .pdf to .html took less than five minutes and produced a very nice .html (except where it got confused and had that line/sentence break problem). I only centered the images and fixed small things (preferences of mine) in the .html. I added a copy of the original .html produced by Mobipocket Creator as well.

So, in the end, it only took five minutes to create, but I could easily have spent 10 times that amount "cleaning" up the .html to meet with my tastes.
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Bad breaks like that is a known problem when converting from PDF. The only way to be sure it's fixed is to compare the HTML with the PDF and fix anything that's broken.
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hee !

imp is the proprietary format used by the eti devices like the ebookwise 1150 and the 1200. given that it's a dead-end, closed, proprietary format, there is honestly no reason that you would *necessarily* have heard of it, unless you, ah, spend time on a forum devoted to ebooks that is...
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I wouldn't go saying that (though I was thinking it).

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there is honestly no reason that you would *necessarily* have heard of it, unless you, ah, spend time on a forum devoted to ebooks that is...
Sooooooo true.........

Outside these (mobileread.com) walls, the .imp format has no significant online presence to speak of.

It's nice to have so many "champions" here (of the .imp format), be it posting .imp ebooks, organizing wiki pages around it or trying to "dissect/poke/prode" it into something more useful.

It can only get better.... and will, as new tools (like EBook-Tools) or new hardware reader's (like ETI's e-ink prototype which WILL use the .imp format) are released.
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If someone makes a properly compared HTML vs the PDF, I'll happily convert it to LRF.
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