Comment author: Viliam_Bur 07 September 2012 09:30:23AM *  0 points [-]

What is your favorite way of making eBooks in different formats? I can imagine two solutions:

a) Make the eBook in one format, and then use some applications to automatically convert it to the remaining formats. Possible disadvantage: if the latter formats allow some features that the original format does not support, the converted versions will not use them.

b) Write the eBook in some format-independent language, such as TeX or DocBook, and then compile it to all formats.

I don't have much experience with eBooks, so I don't know what kinds of formats are there, what are their features, and what convertors/compilers exist.

Comment author: Elec0 09 September 2012 04:27:45AM 1 point [-]

I made it in a program called eCub, which compiles .html files to a .epub file, which I then converted to other formats in Calibre.

Comment author: mapnoterritory 04 September 2012 07:35:33AM 4 points [-]

Most (maybe all?) sequences are available in alternative formats here:

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences#Alternative_formats

There is also a huge single file version of all Eliezer's post up to end 2010 here:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/72m/an_epub_of_eliezers_blog_posts/

Comment author: Elec0 04 September 2012 10:45:24PM *  0 points [-]

It is true, although I only see one version of what I did, and the formatting is kind of odd, but Jordan has put pretty much all of them into ebook format here. http://lesswrong.com/lw/319/print_ready_version_of_the_sequences/

Comment author: peter_hurford 04 September 2012 01:49:06AM 1 point [-]

Can it be made available in PDF?

Comment author: Elec0 04 September 2012 03:02:09AM 5 points [-]

Converted to PDF, although the table of contents doesn't work correctly, apparently Calibre doesn't do that.

Comment author: iDante 03 September 2012 10:05:12PM 2 points [-]

mobi would be wonderful for kindle users.

Comment author: Elec0 04 September 2012 01:04:02AM 7 points [-]

Converted to mobi for Kindle users.

Comment author: arundelo 03 September 2012 03:55:59AM *  3 points [-]

It's not a super deep book*, but it is very gripping, and more character-oriented than you might expect given the premise. The viewpoint character is a convincing 16-year-old. For me, the book is one of the most memorable fictional depictions of grit I've seen, right up there with Gattaca and The Shawshank Redemption**. (Disclaimer: I've read the book several times, but the most recent time was five or ten years ago.)

* But much deeper than Dragon Ball Z from what I've seen. :-)

Edit: Here's Orson Scott Card giving a glowing review to Singularity and some other Sleator books. This contains a spoiler for Singularity! -- although vg'f n cybg cbvag lbh pbhyq cebonoyl thrff tvira gung jr'ir nyernql gnyxrq nobhg gur gjva cnenqbk.

** Edit 2: The Count of Monte Cristo deserves a place on this list too.

Comment author: Elec0 03 September 2012 04:47:19PM 0 points [-]

That sounds like an interesting book, thanks for the recommendation. It's going on my to-read list.

Comment author: Elec0 03 September 2012 09:06:19AM 3 points [-]

Hello everyone. I've been lurking around this site for a while now. I found this site from HPMOR, as I'm sure a lot of people have. The fanfic was suggested to me by one of my friends who read it.

Random cliffnotes about myself. I'm a highschool senior. I'm a programmer, been programming since I was 10, it's one of my favorite things to do and it's what I plan on doing for my career. I love reading, which I would imagine is a given to most people here. I've always been interested in how the universe and people work, and I want to know the why of everything I can.