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"Hacker Monthly": now available in e-book format
- Luyt 16y agoIs it me, or is there no plaintext or PDF version?
- bearwithclaws 16y agoPDF: http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-issue1-revised.pdf http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-issue1-revised.pdf
- Luyt 16y agoThanks ;-) Got it.
- dpapathanasiou 16y agoYou can get the pdf from http://hackermonthly.com/ http://hackermonthly.com/ (which has been there since the first release), and if you want plain text, you can use calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/ http://calibre-ebook.com/) to convert the .epub file to .txt
- iamwil 16y agoOddly enough, I find the print harder to read. Multi columns, distracting pictures, huge quotes to take me away from the content, and low font to line-height ratios... I guess I've just gotten use to reading online, esp w/ readable.
- dpapathanasiou 16y agoDo you mean the pdf file? The e-book version is based on html, so there are no multiple columns, and the text is flowable, searchable, resizable, etc.
- iamwil 16y agoI guess I'll have to try the e-book version and see what I'm missing out on.
- mrfish 16y agoUm, funny. That's what I enjoy the most about the paper version. I like that it feels a bit homebrew!
- bsgamble 16y agoIs it just me, or has http://hackermonthly.com http://hackermonthly.com been Fireballed? I can't get it to respond.
- pistoriusp 16y agoIsn't "fireballed" a term used for when daringfireball.net/ John Gruber links to a website and it goes down? Like the slashdot effect from simpler times.
- dpcan 16y agoI'm sorry, but I had to laugh when the "Hacker Monthly" blog post told me on which devices I would be able to read the eBook. You should know your audience a little better than that I think. Just being snarky :) The easiest way to read the eBook: save the PDF to the eBook folder on your DropBox and it's already on all your devices.
- dpapathanasiou 16y agoI'm sorry, but I had to laugh when the "Hacker Monthly" blog post told me on which devices I would be able to read the eBook. Well, to be fair to him, he just copied a section from one of our help pages (http://fifobooks.com/device_chart.html http://fifobooks.com/device_chart.html), since not everyone who visits our site knows how. I agree with you, though, that it might have been unnecessary in this particular case.
- jacquesm 16y agoRight, because every hacker news reader uses dropbox...
- albemuth 16y agoIf they don't they should ;)
- almost 16y agoI just got the paper version in the post yesterday and it's awesome! Keep up the good work, I'll definitely subscribe if ypu make that an option.
- yesimahuman 16y agoAgreed. Simply fantastic.
- aohtsab 16y agojust got mine this morning — I thought I saw in the editor's note that you had no prior design experience. I don't believe you! =) Looks really, really great. My only criticism is the giant blocks of text — breaking them up with a pullout quote/picture/chart would do wonders. (I worked in newspaper layout before getting involved in programming) If you're looking for a design book, my newspaper swore by Tim Harrower's "Newspaper Designer's Handbook". But again, excellent job! I'm excited for future issues, and, like @almost, you can also definitely count me as a subscriber.
- tlrobinson 16y agoIs there any way to get this into iBooks directly from the iPad, or do you have to sync with iTunes? If the latter, that's annoying.
- dpapathanasiou 16y agoYeah, going through iTunes is a drag. Unfortunately, that's the only way we know it will work.