The Music of the Sphere for Nook
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Actually, that's not quite the whole of it. I'm going to be making an ePub version that will work on more then just the nook.
I should have it done sometime this week. The one thing I am trying to decide is if I want to embed a font or not. I am partial to Charis SIL and it would give it a nice look.
I'll probably be done later on today actually.
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Isn't this something that anyone with the .doc and the program Calibre could do? I've used it to read some old fanfic (Alternate Universe 4 and Kraith) on my old Sony PRS-300.
Sure. But it's still a bit of work to format everything perfectly, write up the css.
But you have to have the file and you then have to edit the resulting ePub to remove all the garbage that Word puts in. I'm doing the work so nobody else has to.
And thank you for that. I have a Sony reader and eagerly wait to add that ePub file. A beverage of your choice, should we ever meet.
And it is much appreciated Jon. Thanks for your hard work. Oh, and for my two cents, go ahead and embed the fonts. I'm partial to those as well.
- Byron
It's done (in ePub) and ready to be read and enjoyed. I've posted it over at MobileRead.
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2065023#post2065023
If you find anything that could use fixing, please let me know.
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2065023#post2065023
If you find anything that could use fixing, please let me know.
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Nicely done! I second what bailey said: should we meet, the drinks are on me.
Thanks everyone. happy to help. When I wanted to read this, I found the copy that was floating around the net and wasn't happy with it and sent a message to Margaret and she sent me her Word document from which I worked from.
So also please thank Margaret for being so kind as to allow me to work from her master document.
So also please thank Margaret for being so kind as to allow me to work from her master document.
The thank-you is mine to give. 
This seems a good time to post something like this (even though the first sentence is not entirely true anymore):
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
― Carl Sagan
You have to wonder what Sagan would think of the technology today.
This seems a good time to post something like this (even though the first sentence is not entirely true anymore):“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
― Carl Sagan
You have to wonder what Sagan would think of the technology today.
The thank-you is mine to give.
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
― Carl Sagan
You have to wonder what Sagan would think of the technology today.
I'm happy to have made a very nice looking ePub for all the new readers out there. The story is well worth the effort.
As for Carl Sagan, I think he's be thrilled with eBooks.
I liked it.
but that didn't stop me from adding my preferred fonts. 
There is one minor issue: the first paragraph is fully justified while the rest is aligned to the left; I edited the CSS so that all text is now aligned to the left (for some reason I don't like the look of a fully justified text anymore).
Thanks again for all the work you put into this spun.
I looked through it after I DLed it yesterday, and it looked good to me.
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