I just received my copy of Python for Unix and Linux System Administration by Noah Gift and Jeremy Jones, for which I was a technical reviewer. I’ve done several tech reviews for O’Reilly in the past, on both Python and CSS, and the least enjoyable part of the process has been the actual method [...]
As part of an on-going series on exploring the hidden corners of the Kindle, a post on using an undocumented image browsing feature to read complex PDFs or image-based documents: How to Read any Type of File on the Kindle (Almost).
Of course, going from text to scanned images is exactly backwards from the way things [...]
It’s 2am, and I’ve just finished a great novel. My significant other went to sleep hours ago. My best friend, who lives across the country, would love this book, so I make a mental note to tell him about it. If we talk in a day or so I might remember, and it’s possible he’ll [...]
Bookworm will now remember and display the last-read chapter of each book, allowing you to jump right to where you finished reading. This feature applies to both the web and mobile versions of the site:
In addition, a new setting in the Profile page allows you to configure the site to always link the book’s [...]
On the O’Reilly Tools of Change blog recently:
Processing the deep backlist at the New York Times, a report from OSCON
Optimizing web content for the Kindle, using Bookworm screenshots
The latter is part of a series of Kindle articles that I’ll be putting out in the coming weeks, including those on getting inside the device’s operating system [...]
The web-based method to validate ePub files against epubcheck has been updated in a number of ways:
The underlying version of epubcheck has been upgraded to 1.0 RC
The timeout for large file uploads has been increased to 5 minutes, to allow for processing of larger files
A bug has been fixed which prevented the service from displaying [...]