a review of some digitization tools -- 006
i will present some more posts in this series over the weekend (looking at other books that jim adcock has digitized for p.g.), all with the point of assessing structures we need to "mark up" in a book. but, once again, the positive focus for thanksgiving leads me to reiterate the fundamental cornerstone of the series as it has developed thus far, namely, that digitizing e-books is _easy_ -- a take-home message for which we can be thankful... have a great thanksgiving weekend, everyone... :+) -bowerbird
...the fundamental cornerstone of the series as it has developed thus far, namely, that digitizing e-books is _easy_ -- a take-home message for which we can be thankful...
An interesting thesis which anyone can test by "successfully" transcribing a non-trivial book, posting it to PG, and then examining it closely on a variety of devices to see if the posted HTML more-or-less matches the intent found in the epub and mobi when read on a variety of competing reader devices, a variety of competing html browsers on a variety of devices, in the txt70 -- and in the original published text. Hint: A large portion of the posted books at PG fail this test. It is silly to complain about this nit or that nit when the reality is that a large portion of PG books are simply unusable on a large portion of the reader devices that are out there.
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