http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/02/26/an-elegant-solution-to-a-vexing-e-book-problem Comments On: An Elegant Solution to a Vexing E-Book Problem by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by David s]]> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 07:22:30 -0800 The Stranger
I'm interested in the larger problem of preserving the artistic and functional elements of layouts for all kinds of books when viewing electronically.

I save and file tons of info from the web on topics I'm interested in, usually in the form of .pdf files ("printing" web pages to .pdf). I often have to try many different ways of doing this ("printing" directly if the page uses cascading style sheets; using the Reader function in Safari; CleanPrint; PrintFriendly; etc.) in order to get an acceptable result that includes the information I want.

I'm always amazed at the variable results from the same page using different methods, and how some sites have obviously devoted effort to making this process work well, while others produce ridiculously cluttered and garbled results.

From that experience, it seems obvious to me that one of the best ways to preserve the graphical elements of a poem would be to render it in a zoomable form, à la .pdf, but I guess either e-reader manufacturers don't want to pay licensing fees to Adobe for full PostScript capability, or the readers lack the computing horsepower to render it.
Posted by rob!]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:35:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by beatgrl]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:56:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:33:45 -0800 The Stranger just works.
Posted by Zebes]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:39:30 -0800 The Stranger An e-poem as lovely as a tree
Because after the power cut
My e-book's dead oh what the fvk
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:22:00 -0800 The Stranger