From: DJ Vollkasko (DJ_Vollkasko_at_gmx.net)
Date: Mon Apr 05 2004 - 06:34:13 PDT
> > Now, I do know of a location on the web (can't
> > remember the name of it right now, but I'm sure that
> > someone else will chime in with the name) that will
> > create various book formats on the fly.
>
>/That's/ interesting. Anyone else know about this?
Check out http://www.intertext.com:
"InterText is a free, on-line quarterly fiction magazine. It publishes
material ranging from mainstream stories to fantasy to horror to science
fiction to humor. InterText has been publishing continuously on the Net
since March of 1991.
InterText publishes in
<ftp://ftp.etext.org/pub/Zines/InterText/ascii/>Setext (ASCII text which
can also be read as styled text with a Setext browser),
<ftp://ftp.etext.org/pub/Zines/InterText/ps/>PostScript (laser printers),
<ftp://ftp.etext.org/pub/Zines/InterText/pdf/>PDF (for Adobe's
<http://www.adobe.com/>Acrobat portable document viewer),
<ftp://ftp.etext.org/pub/Zines/InterText/newton/>Newton Book,
<ftp://ftp.etext.org/pub/Zines/InterText/pilot/>Palm DOC, HTML, and other
formats." (from http://www.intertext.com/about.html).
Or maybe it's
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
(http://www.infomotions.com/alex/): "Another unique feature of the
Catalogue is the on-the-fly creation of PDF (Portable Document Format)
files. Using this option you can specify things like fonts and font sizes
for your output." (from http://www.infomotions.com/alex/about.shtml)
There may be others that offer multi-format ebooks on the fly/readily
available for free. Hopefully other will chime in.
Cheers,
DJV.
P.S.: All you bookish Newtonians might want to take a peek at
http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/index.php/AvailableNewtonLibraries and
enter your fave source of existing Newton eBooks.
Oh, and pls. do the same here
http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/index.php/EtextSources for raw,
unNewtonized etexts of any flavour.
Both topics have repeatedly been asked about on this list, so there is a
demand for definite link collections, I reckon. Pls. check those two pages
and see what you can contribute.
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