Both render excellently on my Kindle Fire.  Only quibble is a matter in the Contents.

In the Sherlock (1661), the first story is a Scandal in Bohemia, which is the broken down into three parts (I, II, III).  In the text, the sections are labelled JUST with roman numerals, but in the Table of Contents, this makes it look like an error.

I would either change the contents markup to only show level one items (ie, it will only show the story names and not the subsections) or use the special markup to force the sections to show up in the contents as something like "Section I, Section II, Section III".

Other than that, very readable and nice looking.

On the PDF front, I looked at them in Chrome and they seemed very nice, too. (though PDF is not at all my thing)  Same nit-pick with the Table of Contents, obviously.

I don't have an epub reader, so I can't comment on that one.

Overall, well done (on admittedly simple layout fiction).

Jim ... you're the resident Kindle critique ... what are your thoughts?

Josh

PS I notice you changed all the quotes to "smart" quotes.  Did you do that by hand or do you have a favorite (semi-)automated method?

PPS Can you get it to generate the HTML on the fly, too?  I'm very curious how that compares in quality.


On Feb 3, 2012, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote: