If Saint Nick dropped under your Christmas tree a new piece of technology of the tablet or ereader kind, please post about your experiences with these gadgets. Especially if you have a particular archaeological angle, app, or appreciation with them to share.
I know John Raynor received a Kindle. He has set it up as a mobile reference library with Champlain and Sagard texts. I am getting up and running with a Sony E-reader.
I have started experimenting with text documents in MS Word, changing the page size to A6, setting the margins to narrow, and bumping up the font size.
Once saved as a pdf file I bump it over to my reader and that recipe of changes looks well and reads well on the Sony.
What kind of luck or heartache are you having as we step further away from Gutenberg?
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I found some useful information about ebook manuscript preparation. Counterintuitively, the best way to go is to do virtually no formatting. This allows ereaders to reflow text when readers choose different font sizes.
In a Word file set alignment to flush left, font to the Word default, font size to 12 pt. For all the paragraphs set space before to 0 points and space after to 10 points. Avoid insertng double blank lines in your text, ereaders get confused by these and add too much space and can annoy your human readers.
Search for Smashwords and their stylesheet for helpful information.
Smashwords has some free ebooks and most of their titles are priced very low indeed.
One especially helpful book found there is
Publishing Student Writing to the iPad/iPhone/iPodTouch using Smashwords and Bluefire Reader by Kristin Fontichiaro.
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