Shakespeare..Any good formatting out there? - Page 2

DixieGal · 10-01-2008, 03:44 PM

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Thank you both, here's Macbeth: http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2935

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All of his plays are online now: http://www.feedbooks.com/author/494

THANKS! Now what can you do about getting us a nicely formatted Canterbury Tales?

Hadrien · 10-01-2008, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

THANKS! Now what can you do about getting us a nicely formatted Canterbury Tales?

I'll see what I can do, but rather than uploading books myself I've been working on a new interface that's easy enough for anyone to use. In fact, the only books that I've uploaded myself lately were those plays, the rest of the books were uploaded by Feedbooks users.

I'll do a full help guide and a video tutorial as soon as I can to explain everything.

DixieGal · 10-01-2008, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Hadrien

I'll see what I can do, but rather than uploading books myself I've been working on a new interface that's easy enough for anyone to use. In fact, the only books that I've uploaded myself lately were those plays, the rest of the books were uploaded by Feedbooks users.

I'll do a full help guide and a video tutorial as soon as I can to explain everything.

Thanks! You know I'm a reader, not a techy, right? I tried to do Canterbury Tales to upload to MR, and made a horrible mess of the whole thing. I'd certainly be happy to pay if I could just find a well-formatted version that I could convert to play on my reader.

Hadrien · 10-01-2008, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

Thanks! You know I'm a reader, not a techy, right? I tried to do Canterbury Tales to upload to MR, and made a horrible mess of the whole thing. I'd certainly be happy to pay if I could just find a well-formatted version that I could convert to play on my reader.

My goal is to build something for authors, not techies. Any feedback will be helpful. But first things first, I need to do this help page and video tutorial...

cush · 10-04-2008, 08:48 PM

Hadrien-
Will your authoring tool that you are building be useable on a Macintosh?

Hadrien · 10-05-2008, 05:52 AM

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Originally Posted by cush

Hadrien-
Will your authoring tool that you are building be useable on a Macintosh?

Sure since it is web-based.

HarryT · 10-06-2008, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

Thanks! You know I'm a reader, not a techy, right? I tried to do Canterbury Tales to upload to MR, and made a horrible mess of the whole thing. I'd certainly be happy to pay if I could just find a well-formatted version that I could convert to play on my reader.

What problems have you experienced? My personal favourite tools are Book Designer for editing books, and then MobiPocket Creator for creating a nice Mobi book from it. That's a combination which works very well indeed.

BJWanlund · 10-15-2008, 11:07 PM

There's actually a Complete Works available on the Kindle Store that is specifically formatted for the Kindle, AND it's WAY less expensive than the paper version!

BJ

huevos · 10-21-2008, 01:42 PM

@ BJ Wanlund

Ive downloaded this version before and did not like it at all. There is nothing worse than buying 2 versions of the complete works of Shakespeare, finding each one equally unreadable, and then not being able to get your money back.

Here is an example of the type of formatting problems to expect in the version you linked:

Good my friends, If you have beard your general talk of Rome, and of his
Friends there,
It is lots to blanks,
My name hath touch'd your ears it is Menenius

versus

Good my friends,
If you have heard your general talk of Rome.
And of his friends there, it is lots to blanks,
My name hath touch'd your ears it is Menenius

if examples like this were few and far between, it wouldnt be a problem to sort it out...but when the entire rhythm of the play is disrupted, it gets pretty annoying.

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cush Virtual Staggerwing Flier Posts: 68 Karma: 602 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: San Diego CA USA Device: Kindle (and an iMac)	Hadrien- Will your authoring tool that you are building be useable on a Macintosh?

10-15-2008, 11:07 PM	#23
BJWanlund In eBook Heaven Posts: 11 Karma: 50 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Virginia, USA Device: iPhone (owned), Kindle	There's actually a Complete Works available on the Kindle Store that is specifically formatted for the Kindle, AND it's WAY less expensive than the paper version! BJ

10-21-2008, 01:42 PM	#24
huevos Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: DC Device: Kindle	@ BJ Wanlund Ive downloaded this version before and did not like it at all. There is nothing worse than buying 2 versions of the complete works of Shakespeare, finding each one equally unreadable, and then not being able to get your money back. Here is an example of the type of formatting problems to expect in the version you linked: Good my friends, If you have beard your general talk of Rome, and of his Friends there, It is lots to blanks, My name hath touch'd your ears it is Menenius versus Good my friends, If you have heard your general talk of Rome. And of his friends there, it is lots to blanks, My name hath touch'd your ears it is Menenius if examples like this were few and far between, it wouldnt be a problem to sort it out...but when the entire rhythm of the play is disrupted, it gets pretty annoying.

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