[LINK] iPad and eBooks

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Dr Bob Jansen wrote:
> Marghanita,
> 
> as I don't have the physical copy I can not say if anything is missing 
> in the eBook translation. However, the eBook version has lots of images, 
> footnotes, acknowledgements, index and table of contents. My bookmarks 
> and my notes are created by me using the iBook app's bookmark/notes 
> facilities. TOC entries as hyperlinks are created by the author and come 
> with the book. Can I suggest you go to your local Apple store and have a 
> look at the iBook app. I"m sure they will have a book you can browse 
> already installed. If not,m you can download any free book whilst you 
> are there using iBook's store facility and see for yourself how easy it is.
> 

It is the cross platform compatibility and feature usage that I am polling.
Someone else I spoke to, possibly using an android, said that the text to
speech, fell over on some words and the internet/browser access was poor.

As my book is a self guided walk<http://ramin.com.au/walks>, I had visions
of people listening to it - but maybe not. Lulu did the translation from
EPUB to ITunes if one is needed.

On one of these walks
<http://ramin.com.au/annandale/eco-annandale-2010-walks.shtml> one person
turned up with the webpage, with map, pre-loaded on their iphone!

Marghanita

> bobj
> 
> On 11/08/11 10:26 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>> Dr Bob Jansen wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> The book is a continuous object split into chapters. Pages resize 
>>> according to the orientation of the iPad (portrait or landscape). 
>>> There are no hyperlinks in the book contents as bought apart from the 
>>> table of contents and bookmarks. I presume but may be wrong in this, 
>>> that an author could insert in-line hyperlinks if so desired. Gleick 
>>> obviously did not desire to do so.
>>>
>>
>> Did the book come with book marks or are these reader defined?
>>
>> I am looking at my copy of James Gleick's Chaos. It has images and an 
>> extensive "notes on the sources", an index and acknowledgements, at 
>> the back, does The Information include these and how do they work on 
>> the IPAD?
>>
>> Marghanita
> 


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