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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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06-12-2007, 01:32 PM | #31 |
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Yeah! I know but I'm interested in what Lauzon has to say, he's got good ideas on DRM.
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06-12-2007, 01:42 PM | #32 |
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Oh, I think he'll happily share them in either place.
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06-12-2007, 02:47 PM | #33 | |
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Then I'll reserve my final judgement for later. But, right now, FeedBooks brings me no value. |
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06-12-2007, 02:50 PM | #34 | |
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Basically, XML is a language that describes data. Pretty much any data. I suggest "Learning XML" by Erik T. Ray (O'Reilly). Many people at work have used this book to get a good feel of what XML is and what it can do. |
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06-12-2007, 02:56 PM | #35 | |
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Right now, I keep my eBooks in Open Document Format. I use OpenOffice to quickly and easily convert them to whatever format I want them in (PDF for my iLiad, HTML for when I want to play with MobiPocket, PalmDOC for my Palm, etc.). Since Open Doc is becoming the word processing standard, perhaps that should be the eBook format of choice as well. |
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06-12-2007, 03:00 PM | #36 |
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There you go !
Then we should store all the books being crafted here to XML and have links to the translators we need for such and such device. |
06-12-2007, 04:39 PM | #37 | ||
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Actually Feedbooks work exactly like what yvanleterrible describded: Quote:
In my previous post I was just pointing to the fact that LRF, Mobipocket etc... use XML purely for presentation, not semantic information. Last edited by Hadrien; 06-12-2007 at 07:21 PM. |
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06-12-2007, 04:41 PM | #38 | |
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That's what we basically have today - with everyone disagreeing on what the common format is. What you need to be thinking is "This is the common format for all eBooks. If your device doesn't support it - and support it well - then I won't buy your device." You should also be thinking along the lines of "eBooks that aren't in the common format aren't worth buying." |
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06-12-2007, 09:37 PM | #39 |
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Then why are you here? Other then text, HTML, or RTF, it's all closed and proprietary which you seem to have a sever dislike for. What binary ebook format do you like if any?
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06-12-2007, 09:41 PM | #40 | |
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06-12-2007, 11:22 PM | #41 |
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rlauzon, as one that has created many of the books in the Sony upload/download section I do keep the originals in other forms. Sometimes one title will be in several forms. We create these titles in LRF because it gives the most flexibility to the end user. Feedbooks does an excellent job of creating PDF versions and in the future I will be adding a lot of the books I have created here to the library there.
I do find it amusing that for all of your condemnation of the PDF format that you admit to using it yourself. |
06-12-2007, 11:44 PM | #42 | |
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I have as yet not tried Open Doc format (but I'm still using W2k and Word 2k for a lot of my conversion work). I can't address whether it is in fact becoming the standard WP format, but if it is, I'm all for using it as I use RTF, to give people freedom of choice. |
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06-13-2007, 03:48 AM | #43 | |
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But that just reinforces my point: If vendors think that PDF is "the eBook standard" they will make devices that support it - to the exclusion of other, better eBook formats. And the more momentum formats like PDF have, the harder it will be to move to a standard eBook format when one becomes available. |
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06-13-2007, 05:39 AM | #44 |
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A Sony Reader formatted PDF is not displayable on my Palm, my cell phone, my portable video player. On my iLiad, it will look like a large print old-man's book (i.e. not a fun read).
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06-13-2007, 06:16 AM | #45 | |
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So... let's have dedicated sections for popular e-readers, such as the Reader and iLiad, and let's have one section for multi-formats. |
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