Unfortunately, I never pursued this beyond reading a few translations. My new plan for redeeming near total insanity is to open Giles Goodland's book A Spy in the House of Years, find a quotation, at random, and spend the rest of time researching around it, until I am dead. Find a space, you know?

Cheers,

L

On 26 October 2017 at 12:06, Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Philip thanks for that link. It looks interesting.

I heard Jane was not well. I emailed her yesterday to see how she was, but have had no reply. I hope she is ok.

Thanks for the quote from the book. I can see how such a reading experience could occur with some presentations of ebooks. Some could, indeed, be designed to be like websites etc. At the level I operate on, though, my ebooks are presented in a PDF format, so look exactly like printed books.

I think that an ebook’s presentation largely depends on the device you are reading it on. Some people read ebooks on their mobile phones. In such cases, an ePub format is more suitable than a PDF format, because mobile phones have a smaller screen (or reading area) than bespoke reading device such as an iPad or kindle. The ePub format is not an ideal way to view poetry though, at least not to my taste. But I realise that we live in an age where technology rules, and so I will start converting my ebooks to an ePub format—or to be more accurate, offer both an ePub and a PDF version of them.

I don’t know how much longer the ePub format will last, though, as mobile phone screens are getting larger and more suited to a PDF format.