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Epub is essentially HTML at its root, which should make this easier. I think that the Internet Archive may have done this -- they are exporting books in ePub format. I'll forward this question to some folks there (rather than putting their emails in a public list). kc Quoting Jonathan Brinley <[log in to unmask]>: > I'm not a big fan, but it does make me consider what it would take to > make an ePub version of each issue. Anyone have any > knowledge/experience related to HTML->ePub conversion? > > Have a nice day, > Jonathan > > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> I'm not sure, there are definitely some tricks there. >> >> But if you do come up with some CSS that works robustly (your rough >> cut demo is doing some odd things, cutting text off in the middle >> of paragraphs, putting scrollbars in the middle of the page, etc), >> we at the journal would probably be happy to incorporate it in the >> main site as an option, perhaps a link somewhere to toggle between >> a multi-narrow-column and single-column view. A bit of WordPress >> hacking involved there too perhaps to provide such CSS toggle >> functionality. >> ________________________________________ >> From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >> Louis St-Amour [[log in to unmask]] >> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 10:23 PM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: [CODE4LIB] An alternate presentation of Code4Lib Journal >> >> Hey all, >> >> Having recently discovered Code4Lib Journal, I was fooling around with >> columns as ways of making articles more interesting to read, perhaps >> eventually on tablet devices: >> >> [image: AltPresentation.jpg] >> >> Works best in (and in fact only tested on) Google Chrome on an iMac, but you >> can try it out for yourself at http://lsta.me/code4lib/ ... all I've done is >> mirrored the journal site and added some styles to the bottom of the >> WordPress theme's CSS file. In theory you could apply such styles via a web >> browser extension or user stylesheet to the website itself, live. But I >> wouldn't recommend it without further testing and tweaks. >> >> My main goal was to see if columns improved the reading experience on an >> iPad, and the answer is definitely a "yes," because while I set the columns >> too small, you still get a sense of where you are overall and can see >> farther ahead with columns than when you zoom in on a single column webpage. >> The trouble with automatic columns, however, are defining when the automatic >> columns should break. So far, it's perhaps more trouble than it's worth in >> CSS, but with any luck that might change 10 years from now. >> >> It's funny how tablets in particular break our notions of page -- on >> tablets, we want essentially resizable and reflowing text columns but with >> fixed and pretty "page" layouts that we can navigate through. Consider >> magazines on the iPad -- sometimes we want the pretty text and images, but >> other times we want just text alone, or just images alone. And yet that >> means coming up with natural ways to zoom in on text and images without >> making the text unreadable or images blurry. It should be possible, but as >> far as I know, no one's done it right, yet. Either it's a Kindle-style text >> experience, or a magazine-style Image experience. I wonder who will mix the >> two together, first? Inkling almost gets it right with textbook content, but >> often feels like it's wasting space with its one-column infinite scroll >> approach. Which brings me back to my original point, I think columns and >> grids are crucial for helping people see more info at once. >> >> Anyone else have any thoughts on this? I was thinking about turning the >> Journal into an iPad/tablet app, given its Creative Commons license, but I >> now suspect given my interest in columns, that I'd be laying it out in >> InDesign first, like a real magazine, which might be too much work. >> >> >> Louis. >> > > > > -- > Jonathan M. Brinley > > [log in to unmask] > http://xplus3.net/ > -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet