Survey posted 2001-02-01 02:13 by Andy Selle.

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I'm the first voter for sometimes (and quite possibly first comment).

I wish more people would create ebooks for their program documentation, so you could read them on-calc in case you're away from your computer. If I ever create something to release, I'll be sure to do that =)

Good idea, but I can improve on that.
Program instructions should be written in TXTRIDER file form, and in fact many programmers do this with their more complex programs (take FLIB for example.) It allows equations, graphics, different fonts, and all kinds of neat things... very nice.

I think all games should have a help. So if you just wanted one program(game) on your calc, you would still be able to see documentation!

On-calc documentation is a good idea but the problem is which format to use, TICT eBooks, TxtRider files, or whatever other formats there are. We don't want a fragmentation of on-calc text files, as used to exist with asm files with DoorsOS and PlusShell. Perhaps people could include a file for each format, or even include sufficient documentation inside of the file itself, (as long as it doesn't take up way too much space). Then again, they usually include condensed documentation inside of the program itself that is sufficient.

Thats what i do, I make an eBook for all my programs as well as TGV format and standard text.
I make everyone happy that way =-)

-NizZy

does one count as sometimes?

Ebooks are gay!!!

No way! I don't read ebooks.

eBooks are sometimes fun to read. However oftentimes the print is too small and causes
eye strain. There also aren't too many good eBooks on the site. The only good ones
are David Copperfield and Inferno (and the Bible).

That depends on where you get your eBooks.... ;-)

-root

Someone should do an ebook for Waiting for Godot, and A Doll's House

For those of you who don't know, you can create your own ebook with a simple ebook genrator. You can download it right from this site. It is pretty useful on trips or to create ebooks of your class notes (no wonder i knew every single Cold War legislation on my final exam).

I read things on my calc. Most of the time it's notes for my various classes, or an essay I am working on. However, a good story comes in handy for those rare times I have nothing to do.

Knight/Rocket's 2c.

I sort of lied when I voted no. I did read a small portion of an e-book once. But that was it. Part of the reason why I don't read them is because the only books available are of no interest to me. From what I've seen, they are all pretty much older type books that are required reading in high school. Now, if someone were to release some more recent fiction books on the calc, I might consider reading one. Is it easy to make an e-book? Is there some sort of program out there that you just type in what you want and it converts it to an e-book? If so, someone please inform me. either reply to this message or email me at onefastfiveoh@yahoo.com Thank you very much.

onefastfiveoh

Well here is the reason you don't see many modern fiction e-books. Most of the e-books made for ti89 now come off of Project Gutenberg, which is basically a big effort to "digitize" the texts of as many books as possible, since the book must be in digital form to make into an e-book. However, due to copyright restrictions, they have focused on digitizing only books that are so old as to not have a copyright on them that's good for anything (like Shakespeare's work for example.)

Now, an e-book maker could conceivably type in the entire text of a new novel into his computer and compile it, but then he'd have even less of a life than I imagine most mushrooms have.

Ever heard of OCR?
The link above is an old page of a lot of ebooks, but i don't know the new one, but it has a link there, so check it out.
You like Dune? :)

OCR has always worked terribily for me; I find it inaccurate and when there is graphics on the page, it really gets worse.

You just need a better a better OCR program. I use Presto! OCR all time and it works wonderfully. Or mabye you need a better scanner...

thats 1 "a better"

Hi I have a problem with the ebook thing,when I upload it to ticalc.org am I suppose to put down "eBook: Name" for the title or am I suppose to put down "Name" as a title , please answer me. I am haveing lots of diffuculty.

I assume OCR is a term for programs that convert graphical text from some input device to real text...

Exactly. OCR means "Optical Character Reconition".

Dune is the greatest series ever!(that iv read)
I have the full 6 book series, hardback, first ed.!!!
it took a long time to find them all.
The first movie is great, but the new one they came out with isn't.

Um...but wouldn't that be like some sort of copyright infrigments, because I thought of doing that too, but didn't want to get sued.

It is illegal, but ustifiable as long as you delete it after you read it. Then it's like going to the library.

-root