[OSX-Users] Re: ipad?

[Steve Harris]

I have it, that blows too.

It's conversion are fairly awful, unless you spend hours tuning regexs  
- that's not consumer friendly. It is practical to use it to copy  
things that are already in ePub to the device, but cp is faster, and  
doesn't nag me to be upgraded every time I run it.

- Steve

On 29 Jan 2010, at 15:53, Nick Gibbins wrote:

> Re: ebook software, try calibre.
>
>
> -- Dr Nicholas Gibbins
>
> On 29 Jan 2010, at 10:32, Steve Harris <swh at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 29 Jan 2010, at 09:54, Leslie Carr wrote:
>>>
>>> On 28 Jan 2010, at 15:25, Nick Gibbins wrote:
>>>
>>>> Neither fish nor fowl nor good red meat.
>>> but something in a strong apple sauce :-)
>>>
>>>> It isn't a laptop replacement, it isn't an iPhone/iPod Touch  
>>>> replacement, it isn't a netbook replacement, and it isn't a  
>>>> replacement for ebook readers (like the Sony PRS505/700 or  
>>>> Kindle) at the size it is.
>>>
>>> I call you out on the whole Kindle replacement thing. On a trip to  
>>> washington the other day I saw two people using Kindles in public  
>>> and I had to stop myself staring. And laughing. And not in a good  
>>> way. Kindles are fugly (have they been constructed from lego?) and  
>>> seem to have really appalling contrast ratio (dark grey text on  
>>> light grey backgrounds) that make them look like literary Etch-a- 
>>> Sketches. I want to do what people do with Kindles (read! download  
>>> books instantly!) but I would like a better-designed one. Oh yes,  
>>> and one that worked in the UK.
>>
>> Right, except that were not getting iBooks in the UK at launch.
>>
>> The Sony ebooks are much better designed, but the PC-side software  
>> is really unacceptably awful. I use a combination of cp, shell  
>> scripts, and a lot of swearing as a replacement - that's preferable  
>> to fighting with adobe's or sony's ebook software.