Comments on: Joshua Tallent’s Kindle Formatting published

By: Harrison Brace

Harrison Brace — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:27:43 +0000

Bump.

I’d really like to see more dictionaries. Amazon finally published a few (Spanish and French). They also have a English-German, but I need a German English.

Does this book fully describe how to format a public domain dictionary on the Kindle 2? It seems to use different formatting (as it has an in-line short definition that shows, unlike the Kindle 1).

By: Joshua Tallent

Joshua Tallent — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:00:54 +0000

Alan,

Thanks for the great comment and for the 5-star review! Amazon takes a week or more to put up the description on the Kindle page. I’ll see what I can do about making the description on both longer.

By: Alan Wallcraft

Alan Wallcraft — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:58:15 +0000

This is a very enjoyable read, not something that I can typically say about technical ebooks.

However, there is no product description on the Amazon Kindle page. There is a very short description on the paperback page. Almost the entirity of the book’s web page would be suitable for a product description.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:57:45 +0000

It was discussed in detail here (only 3 pages of talk):

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20480

yet no one was able to actually create a Kindle version from what I gather. I tried but it is beyond my computer ability.

By: Joshua Tallent

Joshua Tallent — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:29:59 +0000

Alex,

That sounds like a great idea to me. Any suggestions on a public domain dictionary that would work well for that purpose?

- Joshua

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:26:52 +0000

Joshua, I am definitely a fan of your Kindle customer friendly approach. For instance many people, often don’t give you enough credit for your advising clients on a responsible price for their content. But here is my question, I and some others have called for foreign language support on the Kindle. So far Harrap’s was the only dictionary that I have seen. Would you consider working on some foreign language dictionary support? I mean a dictionary that could sub for the new oxford default if a person chooses to, with full look up functionality.

By: Windwalker

Windwalker — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:21:45 +0000

I bought the DRM-free Kindle edition of Joshua’s book this afternoon at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0024FAPF4/?tag=ebest and I am pleased to provide an early report that he has done an elegant and thorough job. I am hoping to review it here soon and (more briefly) in my Kindle Nation newsletter Monday.

By: Joshua Tallent

Joshua Tallent — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:14:37 +0000

I just wanted to point out that the link to the book page is http://kindleformatting.com/book

Thanks!