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October 10, 2008

Where in India are the digitization vendors?

Here’s a good guess:

This is the output from my Google Analytics web traffic report on the country which sends the most visits to threepress.org. 44% of the traffic to the entire site, which includes this blog, some public domain ebooks and my contact information, is to the ePub validation service, a wrapper around Adobe’s [...]

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July 30, 2008

Bookworm feature updates: sorting and pagination

It is now possible to re-sort books in your library by title, first author or creation date, and to re-order those in ascending or descending order:

If the number of books in your library exceeds 20, you will be presented with next/previous pagination controls.
In an earlier post I listed several features that I planned to add [...]

Recent Comments

Using Flash video in ePub (17)
- Liza Daly: I first heard about the licensing issue here as part of the discussion about — what else? — video in HTML5: Dive into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim.
- Peter Collingridge: On licensing fees – it is my understanding that MP3 also comes with a license fee that has (at times) been recouped by the license holders. It may be ±2% of gross. That...
- Dave Thomas: Be careful recommending H.264—you may be liable to pay royalties on paid content (and, starting next year, on free content) that includes H.264-encoded content. I’m no expert on...
- Hamranhansenhansen: > Flash > QuickTime Neither of those are suitable, because they are proprietary to Adobe and Apple respectively, and so they are not supported on all platforms. In order...
CSS columns for ebook text (5)
- Liza Daly: Apparently getBoundingClientRect doesn’t work on the iPhone anyway (I remember experimenting with it ages ago; this may have been why I gave up on it.) c.f....
- Liza Daly: Oh no, I was experimenting with getBoundingClientRect based on finding it in your code (we only care about WebKit on the mobile devices). So far it was meeting my needs (paired with...
- Joseph: I agree — finding the real location of columned elements has been something of a frustration for Monocle too. GetClientRects is promising, but was still erroneous in the last testing I did...