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A Little Project...


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eBooks  

12 members have voted

  1. 1. Do you know what an eBook is?

    • Yuppers
      10
    • No Clue
      0
    • I want my ink and paper you insolent clod!
      2
  2. 2. Which do you prefer in terms of a digital medium? (Select more than one if you use more than one)

    • ePub (used on iBook, Nook, etc)
      2
    • AZW (Kindle eBook format)
      0
    • PDF (Used across all readers, computers, etc).
      7
    • All of them sound good!
      3
    • Like I said above, I want my ink and paper you insolent clod!
      3
  3. 3. If you use eBooks which program do you use? (Select more than one if you use more than one)

    • iBooks (iPod Touch, iPad, iPhone)
      1
    • Kindle (Mac/PC program, Kindle)
      1
    • Nook (Mac/PC program, Nook, Nook Color)
      1
    • Adobe Acrobat (reads PDF)
      5
    • Adobe Digital Editions (reads both ePub and PDF)
      1
    • Don't you frakin listen!? I want my ink and paper!!!
      3

Technology is always changing, sometimes for the better, sometimes just to drive us all crazy.

 

Thankfully there are people out there who know how to work technology to the benefit of all, and today I'm going to explain what I'm scheming, I mean working on.

 

Thanks to a friend of mine and really good author, I'm going to try my hand at making eBooks using a story of his and see what he thinks (he's really picky with the way he wants things). I'm going to be using two ways to do it and write down the instructions to get both ways to do it, one using Pages (Apple Word program) and MS Word (the more commonly used one).

 

My goal is to get the experience to make and work on ePub books to be used on devices like computers (using Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Digital Editions), Nook eReaders, Kindle eReaders, iOS products (iPad, iPhone, iPod touch) and anyway else you can use an eBook. Also I want to work on making PDF formats for those who are used to Acrobat Reader.

 

Honestly I'm really excited turning words into magic like this and am really looking forward to this little pet project of mine :D

 

Any author out there have any questions, feel free to contact me because I think this is a really exciting turn of events :P

 

Oh and if you could, please take the quick poll at the bottom so I have an idea of what people think, formats they're used to and the like.

 

 

Lets make some magic :D

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I use Stanza to read ePub format. On an iPad. I have found Sigil - it's open source - to be a great little after- publication ePub editor. It's like dreamweaver for ebooks basically.

 

Good luck & have fun.

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What poll at the bottom. I answered the one at the top. Now where's that ink and paper :P

 

Seriously I have the greatest of respect for people who actually know what they're talking about when it comes to technology so way to go

 

I wish you absolutely the best of luck in your endeavour.

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