Looks like I missed most of the action on this thread. last month got hectic. Now there are rumors that a new Color Nook may be coming out.
I think I mentioned that rooting the Color Nook is so dead easy that you don't even have to open it up. Anyway, one of the topics of discussion on eReaders, and the Nook in particular had to do with readability of PDFs. PDFs are normally designed to faithfully present the document layout precisely as defined. The majority of PDF's are in US Letter or metric A4 page sizes. They're almost equivalent. That means that smaller screens have 3 options. 1. Scroll the page (ugh) 2. Shrink the page (argh) 3. Butcher the page (censored). There is a concept known as a reflowable PDF that can survive transfer to portable reading devices better than a straight PDF can. Like ePubs, it will trade display fidelity for readability. I *THINK* that OpenOffice 3 can produce reflowable PDFs, although the exact options to set aren't clear. Likewise for Linux' generous set of PDF manipulation tools. Reflowable or not, of course, there are limits, especially when tables and illustrations are involved. I've got the ePub edition of the O'Reilly jQuery cookbook on my phone, but a 320x240 pixel screen wreaks havoc with the sample code. Tim --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
