[OSX-Users] Re: ipad?

[Nick Gibbins]

Sigil is a reasonable ePub editor. I've decided that I don't like  
Stanza's ePub conversions, and now that they've been bought by Amazon,  
it doesn't look like the desktop software is going to improve any time  
soon.
-- 
Dr Nicholas Gibbins

On 29 Jan 2010, at 16:06, Steve Harris <swh at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>