We've had a few conversations on books in the internet age. This is a nifty Javascript stunt:
BookJS is a Javascript library that you can use to turn a webpage into a PDF formatted for printing as a book. Take a webpage, add the Javascript and you will see the page transformed into a paginated book complete with page breaks, margins, page numbers, table of contents, front matter, headers etc. When you print that page you have a book formatted PDF ready to print. It’s that simple. http://toc.oreilly.com/2012/10/bookjs-turns-your-browser-into-a-print-typesetting-engine.html and here's the booksjs site: http://bookjs.net/ I wonder how well it solves the odd problems printing HTML .. things like "widows", images cut in half, and so on. But if it works, and considering the maturity of CSS/HTML5 it could, this might stop the horrible ebooks formats wars! Wouldn't that be nice. -- Owen
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