gHacks technology news » e book http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Online Book Demonstration http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/13/online-book-demonstration/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/13/online-book-demonstration/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:16:41 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/13/online-book-demonstration/ What exactly would come to your mind if I would speak about e-books ? Would you think about pdf documents and other text documents ? Most likely yes because e-books are distributed in text documents nowadays. What if there was a more natural way of presentation, an e-book that would have all the functions of a real book (and more) ?

That’s what the Book Beta Demo is trying to present. It looks pretty much like a book on a website. Readers can flip through the pages of the book, go to a specific page and even tear pages from it. Advanced features that you wont find in any real book are demonstrated as well.

Those features include transparency effects as well as a component called live Bitmapping which makes it possible to change animations on a page.

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I’m not saying that this is a perfect adaption but the demonstration does come closer to the real experience than those pdf documents. I had some troubles concentrating on the contents of the book because my eyes did seem to be attracted to the page flipping mechanism.

The reason could be because it is a new way of reading or because there was not much content to read anyway in this demonstration.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/13/online-book-demonstration/feed/ 0 Add books and documents to your iPod http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/02/add-books-and-documents-to-your-ipod/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/02/add-books-and-documents-to-your-ipod/#comments Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:08:11 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/02/add-books-and-documents-to-your-ipod/ There is no comfortable function in iTunes to transfer large e-books or documents to or from the iPod. Everytime major functions are missing a freeware author steps in and offers a freeware program that would add the functionality. Ipodlibrary is the freeware program that steps in this time. You can use it to add and remove all sorts of text documents to and from your iPod.

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Ipodlibrary is able to import txt, doc, lit and html documents avoiding the 1000 notes limit of the iPod (by setting some to inactive which means that they do not count against the limit). It keeps track of the position that you are currently at which makes it easy to continue where you left of.

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