On 41 July Jon Noring wrote ... of ... I'll ... Jon You have replied in enormous and painstaking detail to my last couple of posts, for which many thanks. I...
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Pat Coyne
Pat-Coyne@xxxx.xxxxxx...
Aug 1, 1999 1:36 pm
On 31 July Jon Noring, apropos a Bowerbird post, wrote ... so ... two ... them ... the ... necessity ... worlds. ... be ... Absolutely. I agree with that last...
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Pat Coyne
Pat-Coyne@xxxx.xxxxxx...
Aug 1, 1999 1:58 pm
On 31 July Ben Trafford wrote ... the ... the ... my ... Ben, I take your point. Trying to keep up with the latest releases of any software can be a nightmare....
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Bowerbird@xxx.xxx
Aug 1, 1999 4:20 pm
... adobe's network server can already strip out .pdf text. and some acrobat versions ("capture", i believe, the one that comes bundled with an h.p. scanner) ...
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Ben Trafford
bent@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 1, 1999 5:14 pm
... The quality of this OCR is quite low. I've tried to do mass conversions based on OCR from a print buffer filled with PDF. It was nasty, nasty, nasty. ... ...
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Ben Trafford
bent@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 1, 1999 5:12 pm
... And, hey, that's surely a lot better than Word or something of the like, where we have no idea how it's built and it radically changes from one release to...
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Jim Drew / Ciao! Publ...
ciaopubs@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 1, 1999 10:39 pm
From: Bowerbird@... ... Your misplaced attacks aside, I suspect that you have litte to no knowledge of what decisions go into providing one feature over...
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Stephen Cole
stephen.cole@xxxxxx.x...
Aug 2, 1999 1:45 am
... Adobe reports that over 20 million readers have been installed out there. Not bad. Stephen Cole eBooks.com ... Thanks for using eBook-List, Discussion...
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Kurt Foss
kfoss@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 2, 1999 2:33 am
... Actually, as the occasionally poetic, always opinionated Bowerbird noted a few messages back in the pack, the current number is MUCH higher, according to...
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Charles Demas
demas@xxxxxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Aug 2, 1999 3:49 am
... Well, they're probably counting people like me that downloaded it, tried it, found it took forever to run on their old slow computers, and decided to avoid...
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Tra-Bar
trabar@xxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 2, 1999 4:02 am
<snip> The 20 million marker was as of about two years ago, as I recall. Acrobat has made some significant strides since version 2 (although you wouldn't know...
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Ben Trafford
bent@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 2, 1999 4:30 am
... Judith, Any format allows this. It's a matter of enabling the software to remember the place where it left off. However, XML does make it easier to...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 2, 1999 4:43 am
... Just a note on this sort of thing, since I just replied to a note about our upcoming collections of Poe. . .apparently NONE of the editions ever produced...
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Michael Ward
mjward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
Aug 2, 1999 4:56 am
Hey, gang, I've been keeping my own counsel for the last runthru of the seemingly perpetual PDF vs XML meme. I'll say something now: <shout> This isn't the...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 2, 1999 5:11 am
A couple years ago, the first places to ever report 10,000,000 users of any kind of software, even the most prolific, were just coming out. . . . I'm not sure...
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Pat Coyne
Pat-Coyne@xxxx.xxxxxx...
Aug 2, 1999 9:35 am
On 1 August Michael Hart wrote ... Michael touches on a most important point for those of us who attempt to put classic texts on the web -- what exactly is the...
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Bowerbird@xxx.xxx
Aug 2, 1999 11:07 am
jim said: lots of things, mainly disagreeing with me. and, boy, i don't know where to start on this one... i think jim was oh for however-many-he-tried-for. ...
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Bowerbird@xxx.xxx
Aug 2, 1999 11:15 am
... hey, c'mon, kurt, this _is_ an e-book listserve. how poetic do you want me to try and be here? :+) ... this was the important phrase, for anyone...
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Bowerbird@xxx.xxx
Aug 2, 1999 11:19 am
... quite a few, actually. just as a for-example, will steve from overdrive come in here and give us an overview of overdrive, please? as far as i can tell...
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Eric Walusis
ebooks@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 2, 1999 12:38 pm
... place ... While I know it is sometimes considered crass (by some members of this list) to extol the virtues of hardware like the SoftBook and Rocket eBook,...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 2, 1999 2:37 pm
... Yes, each of the academics has their own favorite edition, not always the first edition in our experience, but they always want THEIR favorite to the the...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 2, 1999 3:07 pm
... I don't think I have ever used ANY method of reading a book, actually READING it, rather than just using the DOS TYPE command to check for formatting...
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Lisa L. Spangenberg
lisaspangenberg@xxxxx...
Aug 2, 1999 4:10 pm
... Unless you are producing a facsimile, the issue of italics or bold is one that should be determined by a house style sheet. Obviously, you want to serve...
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Tra-Bar
trabar@xxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 2, 1999 4:18 pm
Subject: Re: [eBook-List] Place-holding ... ... same ... <snip> ... OK, Please explain how you to do this. Thanks. I've read the other posts on my question...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 2, 1999 4:52 pm
... Well. . .it's different for every program. . .some use various control characters, etc., and keep a separate file that tell it where you are in the main...
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Eric Walusis
ebooks@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 2, 1999 5:06 pm
Judith: There is no "trick" to place holding with the SoftBook and Rocket eBook. The ability to return to a particular place in the text is automatic, and ...
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zendog
zendog@xxxxxxx.xxxxx....
Aug 2, 1999 5:26 pm
I find the disdain for "scholarship" snipped below from posts previous posts curious. Why would one post multiple editions of a book if there were not some ...
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David P. Dillard
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Aug 2, 1999 5:36 pm
A great deal of attention has been paid on this list to XML as a future tool in electronic book design. Some comment has been favorable and some comment...
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Tra-Bar
trabar@xxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 2, 1999 6:17 pm
Subject: [eBook-List] Place-holding ... ... ************ That explains the advantages of formatting e-books for e-readers. Thank you. My question also...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Aug 2, 1999 6:24 pm
... Everyone has their own level of scholarship, some would like to think there are no levels higher than their own. . .and would "disdain" the levels above or...
