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Review: Capturing Races 1

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Robert Jasiek

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Mar 20, 2012, 1:50:51 PM3/20/12
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Thomas Redecker has written a review:

http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=5692
http://senseis.xmp.net/?CapturingRaces1#toc2

Stek Turku

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Mar 25, 2012, 10:07:12 AM3/25/12
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Hi Robert, i would suggest you, about the format of ebook, to use the
standard epub format for yours ebook.
I have an ebook reader and i prefer reading an epub file than a pdf
file.
I think that it's more complex produce an epub file but i assure you
that it is more, more and more enjoyable read it than a pdf file.


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Stek Turku

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Mar 25, 2012, 10:08:45 AM3/25/12
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Il giorno dom, 25/03/2012 alle 16.07 +0200, Stek Turku ha scritto:
> for yours ebook.

for your ebooks.
^__^

Robert Jasiek

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Mar 25, 2012, 1:56:03 PM3/25/12
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Stek Turku wrote:
>i would suggest you, about the format of ebook, to use the
>standard epub format for yours ebook.

The market for PDFs is still small and that for ebook file formats
even smaller. So commercially the extra effort does not make sense.
(Tell me if you want to pay EUR 100 per ebook...)

Much more importantly though, I write my books' contents for static A5
layout. I use tables with lots of data entries; with an ebook format
and dynamically arranged contents, I cannot guarantee reasonable
rendering. I also frequently use diagram comparisons, for which it is
essential that they appear in a row. Furthermore accompanying text
refers to "the left / middle / right diagram" or "the diagram above /
below". So while creating PDF is a matter of minutes (in case of
program bugs up to two hours), creating an ebook format is a matter of
ADDITIONAL work of several weeks.

I do not produce stupid books with only examples / problems / games in
them; they can be saved in an ebook format easily. What I create is
high quality contents books, for which static layout is an important
element because I know that the resulting rendering will express what
I want to express.

Stek Turku

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Mar 25, 2012, 6:06:54 PM3/25/12
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Il giorno dom, 25/03/2012 alle 19.56 +0200, Robert Jasiek ha scritto:
> Stek Turku wrote:
> >i would suggest you, about the format of ebook, to use the
> >standard epub format for yours ebook.
>
> The market for PDFs is still small and that for ebook file formats
> even smaller. So commercially the extra effort does not make sense.
> (Tell me if you want to pay EUR 100 per ebook...)

no absolutely not. I love electronic format either pdf or epub files but
for now i like more epub format than pdf.

> Much more importantly though, I write my books' contents for static A5
> layout. I use tables with lots of data entries; with an ebook format
> and dynamically arranged contents, I cannot guarantee reasonable
> rendering. I also frequently use diagram comparisons, for which it is
> essential that they appear in a row. Furthermore accompanying text
> refers to "the left / middle / right diagram" or "the diagram above /
> below". So while creating PDF is a matter of minutes (in case of
> program bugs up to two hours), creating an ebook format is a matter of
> ADDITIONAL work of several weeks.

Robert, thank you for your technical explanations. I didn't thought that
it was so complex and expensive produce a GO ebook (epub file), sorry!

> I do not produce stupid books with only examples / problems / games in
> them; they can be saved in an ebook format easily. What I create is
> high quality contents books, for which static layout is an important
> element because I know that the resulting rendering will express what
> I want to express.

i am sure that your works are ones of high quality but i also think that
for a 6 inches ebook reader the A5 (148x210mm) format is not the
optimum. The best format for static pdf i think is 90x120mm.

Best regards.

Robert Jasiek

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Mar 26, 2012, 2:05:07 AM3/26/12
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Stek Turku wrote:
>I didn't thought that
>it was so complex and expensive produce a GO ebook (epub file)

Some others produce only ebook and only for iPad presumably also
because they face the same problem in the other direction - the
transfer to PDF. Not the creation of an ebook is so complex and
expensive but the creation of both(!) ebook and non-ebook formats.
BTW, big publishers of ordinary books have the same problem.

>for a 6 inches ebook reader the A5 (148x210mm) format is not the
>optimum.

Not the optimum indeed:) iPad 3 with its very high resolution might be
good enough though.
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