Comments on: Too heavy! Wish for e-book versions

By: Rich Adin

Rich Adin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:22:21 +0000

I, too, am getting ready to start “Amir Hamza” in the print version. It is the next hardcover in my pile. I hadn’t thought about the ebook version, but since it has been mentioned as available for the Kindle, I thought I’d check the Sony store (I have a Sony 505). It’s available there for $17.50. I think I’ll stick with the pbook version since I already own it.

By: Paul Biba

Paul Biba — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:54:38 +0000

Thanks! Just bought it. The p-book goes back into the bookshelf.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:30:47 +0000

“The Adventures of Amir Hamza” is currently available for the Kindle; only $8.00 on 1/11/09. There are a lot of footnotes easily clicked. I think the Kindle handles footnotes well enough, probably even better than a dead tree book with endnotes, if the ebook is properly formatted.

The new translation of “The Arabian Nights Tales of 1001 Nights” is not available in the United States. A quick search on Amazon didn’t show a forthcoming date.

By: Logan Kennelly

Logan Kennelly — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:00:17 +0000

They look better in an actual document (and in the preview before I hit Submit). I also failed to mention that they can mess up the line spacing in many browsers/readers. :-/

By: Logan Kennelly

Logan Kennelly — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:55:38 +0000

My personal favorite for footnotes is simply placing the note after the paragraph. I know it’s a footnote but, at least for me, I’m going to read it anyway. (I prefer this method only for the fact that I don’t have to wait for a page turn, which could be slow, or support from the reader, which is rare.)

And Mike, until someone decides that MathML should be a part of ePub, how about this formula (although you may have already tried it):

³/₄

3/4

By: Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:36:10 +0000

A footnote to that, do you know HTML only specifies a *few* fractions in code? What eejit approved that? “Abyss” has more than the coded few — and having to format them with code makes them look like crap compared to the coded ones!

By: Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:34:43 +0000

>>>On an e-book note, I haven’t seen an e-book yet that handles footnotes well.

After “The People of the Abyss,” I was going to do an ePub version of London’s “The Iron Heel,” which I hadn’t read. Then I saw it was filled with footnotes! (At the bottom of each page, btw.) Frightened me off.

By: Chris Meadows

Chris Meadows — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:09:38 +0000

I think that eReader actually handles footnotes pretty well. Click the footnote link and it pops up in a box in the screen (or temporarily replaces what’s on the screen right now), then click the “back to document” link to return to where you were.

Of course, it can be kind of hard to click the footnote link if it’s a little tiny superscript number. (For this reason, I always refer to footnotes in eReader books I prepare by putting (Footnote 1) in full size instead of a superscript number.)