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Owen Densmore
May 9, 2012, 11:14:17 AM5/9/12
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HTML Weekly mentioned a new book:
Professional WebGL Programming by Andreas Anyuru
.. who's Amazon page also points to a soon to be released one:
WebGL: Up and Running by Tony Parisi
One possible advantage for the latter is that it has better ebook formats than Amazon's kindle/mobi. OReilly typically includes multiple ebook formats, including pdf and have "Early Release" versions of the ebooks, which gets updated continually. Tony may also be more engaged with the WebGL standards folks too.
I wish Amazon would do as OReilly does: produce a set of ebooks, not just mobi.
-- Owen
Edward Angel
May 9, 2012, 11:18:50 AM5/9/12
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Unfortunately the Parisi book isn't scheduled to be released until July 22.
Ed
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Bruce Sherwood
May 9, 2012, 11:33:34 AM5/9/12
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Doesn't http://calibre-ebook.com address the issues of conversions
among ebook formats? And there are free readers for most formats
anyway, aren't there? What exactly is the problem?
Bruce
among ebook formats? And there are free readers for most formats
anyway, aren't there? What exactly is the problem?
Bruce
Owen Densmore
May 9, 2012, 11:46:42 AM5/9/12
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Ed: You can get the early release now and it will upgrade through publishing and 2nd, 3rd .. printings. And if there is a 2nd edition, they may give a discount. And indeed, searching for "oreilly coupon discount" has always worked for me and once you get an ebook, it's in their "cloud" and they send you weekly deals, several of which have been impressive. Heck, you can even find errors or poor explanations and improve the book for the rest of us!
Bruce: Calibre for me has not been as successful as I'd like. One example from the past was the kindle did not have color. I believe that is still the case. So converting to color formats, especially pdf, was poor. I think OReilly hand tweeks the various formats to make them as good as possible. PDF is the big deal for me so if I lost epub etc I might not mind although if you have an android device, the OReilly bundle includes it's native format as well. Kindle is fine for novels and most non-formatted text but without page numbers it still is way behind. No problems with readers, just the formats.
-- Owen
Neil
May 10, 2012, 1:35:55 AM5/10/12
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I've had good luck with calibre; and I have a wonky reader (iRex
Iliad). Calibre is configurable for specific devices, etc, etc (it
also can preload your device). I also find it has decent conversions.
One nice thing with OReilly, is they're DRM-free. So if you pick up
something like an epub, you have no issues converting it to pdf, or
anything else; although you want to go one direction: epub->pdf is
better than pdf->epub, for example.
Iliad). Calibre is configurable for specific devices, etc, etc (it
also can preload your device). I also find it has decent conversions.
One nice thing with OReilly, is they're DRM-free. So if you pick up
something like an epub, you have no issues converting it to pdf, or
anything else; although you want to go one direction: epub->pdf is
better than pdf->epub, for example.
Roger Critchlow
May 10, 2012, 6:58:25 PM5/10/12
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The nice thing about Calibre is that Govid is happy to have you contribute any fixes or extensions you come up with. It was a mondo python application the last time I played with the sources, two or three years ago sorting out formatting details on a Sony book reader.
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Owen Densmore
Jun 20, 2012, 12:28:12 PM6/20/12
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Gang: I'm messing around with a JS netlogo, using canvas 2d, and I suspect the performance is not what we need.
So I'm again interested in these two books. Did anyone try them yet? In particular the kindle version of Professional WebGL Programming?
I noted one of the pre-release reviewers of the oreilly book listed as a negative the over-use of a 3d library, three.js. I also noticed their ebook currently is only pdf (hopefully this will change and be the usual three eformats). I don't mind the three.js use as long as the fundamentals are there.
I *think* I'd get the Professional WebGL Programming book if the Kindle version were OK (I've had difficulty with many kindle books having poor visuals and navigation).
-- Owen
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Edward Angel
Jun 20, 2012, 12:34:02 PM6/20/12
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I have the book on order from Amazon. The table of contents of the other book looked like it was mostly a low level graphics book so I passed on it.
Ed
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Ed Angel
Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
1017 Sierra Pinon
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
1017 Sierra Pinon
Owen Densmore
Jun 20, 2012, 1:16:21 PM6/20/12
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Oh dear, here's another one:
WebGL Beginner's Guide
It may be too simple, but clicking on the Table of Contents link shows a very detailed set of topics, many are oriented to practical use and performance. Also has complete set of ebooks.
-- Owen
Owen Densmore
Jul 10, 2012, 7:45:26 PM7/10/12
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Edward Angel <an...@cs.unm.edu> wrote:
I have the book on order from Amazon. The table of contents of the other book looked like it was mostly a low level graphics book so I passed on it.
Which book did you order? Of the three books that look promising:
1 - Professional WebGL Programming Andreas Anyuru2 - WebGL Beginner's Guide Diego Cantor, Brandon Jones3 - WebGL: Up and Running Tony Parisi
1 is available now, both print & kindle
2 ditto and with all ebook formats from PACKT (kindle from amazon)
3 in pre-release from oreilly in ebook format
How was it once you got a look at it?
-- Owen
Edward Angel
Jul 10, 2012, 8:36:26 PM7/10/12
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I'm still waiting for #3.
Ed
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Ed Angel
Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
1017 Sierra Pinon
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico
1017 Sierra Pinon
Owen Densmore
Jul 10, 2012, 11:58:32 PM7/10/12
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I just got a 40% discount code for OReilly found via google search: TIM40
So I got the ebook for around $16 or so. I'm fairly sure this will become a suite of all the major ebook formats when it goes live.
-- Owen
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