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Re: Yesterday's Coyote Graphics Update [message #75174 is a reply to message #75173]

Fri, 18 February 2011 08:48

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Paulo Penteado wrote:
> On Feb 18, 1:39 pm, David Fanning <n...@idlcoyote.com> wrote:
>> The most nerve wracking part of book publishing is
>> the point where you have to hit that send button
>> and commit your ignorance and folly to what appears
>> to be stone. It is *extremely* difficult to do!
>>
>> OK, I know the book is not perfect. I also know it
>> is not because of lack of effort or foolishness.
>> Ignorance probably plays a big role. Deep breath....
>
> Another advantage of electronic formats. Softer stone to edit.
>
> For some book I bought from O'Reilly, I got email notifications when
> there were updates available to download.

similar for pragmatic programmers, and manning publishers - they contact me, and I have an online library when I log
into my "bookshelf" at their sites where I can see what needs to be updated/re-downloaded.

> Also, I would suggest, if possible, to enable in the PDFs commenting
> through Acrobat Reader. That way people without the full Acrobat can
> put annotations on the text. I think that Kindle already allows notes
> on every book. The inability to make annotations is one of the reasons
> some people have to prefer printed copies.

Ooo... that's a good idea. I never did that in my paper books (grew up using library books) so doing it for my pdf books
never occurred to me. Kewl.

cheers,

paulv

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		Re: Yesterday's Coyote Graphics Update By: David Fanning on Fri, 18 February 2011 08:55
		Re: Yesterday's Coyote Graphics Update By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 18 February 2011 08:48
		Re: Yesterday's Coyote Graphics Update By: David Fanning on Fri, 18 February 2011 08:14
		Re: Yesterday's Coyote Graphics Update By: penteado on Fri, 18 February 2011 08:07
		Re: Yesterday's Coyote Graphics Update By: Matteo Romano on Fri, 18 February 2011 07:43
		Re: Yesterday's Coyote Graphics Update By: David Fanning on Fri, 18 February 2011 07:39
		Re: Yesterday's Coyote Graphics Update By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 18 February 2011 07:26

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