Archive: eBooks category
For the past few days I've been playing around with a Sony Portable Reader (for eBooks), and I have to say I'm not that impressed. The typography was atrocious, the interface didn't feel smooth enough, and even if those weren't the case, the page switching thing (flashing black for ...
After a couple of hours of work, I've finished the Latin edition of Martin Luther's 95 Theses and made it downloadable at Riverglen Press. There are actually two versions: the learner's edition has large print and lots of extra space for making notes between the lines (as well ...
I've started my first project for Riverglen Press: Martin Luther's 95 Theses, in Latin. It'll be a learner's edition, for printing out and translating. I'm working off the Project Gutenberg text. ...
Discovered Wikibooks today. Very cool -- it's free, open-content textbooks on a variety of subjects. (I'm reading up on patch theory for my work on Beyond.)
Today I read about the Reading 2.0 conference, and it's very interesting stuff. For good summaries of the main talks, see Tim O'Reilly's notes.
On a somewhat related note, I'm wondering about how worthwhile it is to be able to produce PDFs on-the-fly from a text/HTML/XML source. ...
