Vorkosigan

Kindle kindle kindle version!!!!!!

dog-on

Bought and on it's way.

Nice work Roger!

Roger Pearse

Interesting ... and I don't see why not. If there is demand... and there probably is.

I wonder what would be involved? The final form of the book was a PDF, of course, in text form. That was the output from being typeset in Adobe InDesign CS5.

Hmm. I've been looking at the Amazon pages. Love the bit where they talk about MY "royalty rate" of 70% ... i.e. they propose to help themselves to 30% of my sales, plus apply charges of various sorts.

But from a technical point of view, they want input in Word 2010. This I have. But ... how would the book work? I could do a version consisting only of the English translation easily enough; but not a version with facing Greek/Latin etc, because -- if I understand correctly -- you see one page only at a time?

Of course there is nothing to stop me doing a version consisting only of the English.

All the best,

Roger Pearse

Roger Pearse

Thank you very much!

Let me add that anyone thinking of doing the same ... DON'T! It was almost three years of my life, and endless pain. I don't regret it; but I'm looking very leerily at Ancient Texts in Translation 2, which is more or less complete on my hard disk, and awaiting typesetting etc; Origen's Homilies on Ezekiel. Haven't found the guts to do it. One day...

Vorkosigan

You could do an English-Greek Kindle version by cutting the book in halves, one English and one Greek, with links to blocs of text so the reader could move back and forth as necessary. But you can also sell the PDF as a printable file on Amazon, because that will be Kindle readable -- if awkward.

Vorkosigan

jdl

Mostly all I read on Kindle are PDFs. Generally they can be read comfortably if the margins are first cropped with Briss (and you need to read in landscape mode, of course). The main factor that determines whether the PDF is suitable is the amount of text per line. I've encountered some PDFs that squeeze so much text onto each line that you can reduce the margins to the very edge of the text and still have something that's too small to read.

Joseph