I read a ton of PDFs on my iPad with GoodReader. It works perfectly well and can do text reflowing. ePub is fine for fiction books or books without too many graphics but for technical documents, I find it just sucks big time. Phil 2013/2/19 Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu>:
On 19 Feb 2013, at 15:34, "phil@highoctane.be" <phil@highoctane.be> wrote:
I tried http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-epub
but what comes out is pretty crappy since we do lose a lot of formatting in an epub format.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cwreegtgx7ptrpp/PBE2_Assembled_20130213.epub
Too bad.
Although it is possible to read books, articles, and so on from formatted PDF's on tablets and computers, it is definitively *not* the future of online reading.
Well done epub is already a lot better, but even that leaves lots of room for improvement. (Is something as fundamental as a page even a valid concept ?)
In the end, it is all just a huge amount of work.
Phil
2013/2/19 Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com>:
2013/2/19 phil@highoctane.be <phil@highoctane.be>:
2013/2/19 Damien Cassou <damien.cassou@gmail.com>:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:45 AM, phil@highoctane.be <phil@highoctane.be> wrote:
This should be made into a Jenkins job I think so that we can have the PBE2 and other books in PDF form for easier dissemination.
you are right. Here is one:
https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/DeepIntoPharo/
the only missing piece is the automated upload to GForge (http://pharobooks.gforge.inria.fr/PharoByExampleTwo-Eng/). I'm working on it.
It would be great to have something like https://github.com/danchoi/kindlefodder in the book CI pipeline... :D
I know I'm asking without giving anything back, but at least that way I'd read it! :) (and Kindles/ebook readers are more common every day).
Regards!
Esteban A. Maringolo