On 3/6/2012 2:38 AM, Martin Packer wrote:
Given Kindle doesn't have much of a notion of a page which HTML construct
are you using to contain a slide?
What do you mean by 'slide'? If you mean an image, I use an img element
If you mean a page from a course, I build the page from a combination
of ul and li elements, using 'pre' tags for code (usually wrapped in
a div tag so I can set font information and draw a box around the code).
Cheers, Martin
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From:
Steve Comstock<[email protected]>
To:
[email protected],
Date:
05/03/2012 21:56
Subject:
Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!
Sent by:
IBM Mainframe Discussion List<[email protected]>
On 3/5/2012 2:19 PM, Sevetson, Phil wrote:
Steve, Speaking strictly for myself, I like the idea of buying your
material
in
Kindle format. However, I'm not an AJAX coder. What materials are
next/soon in
your push for this?
--Phil Sevetson
DB2 z/OS DBA
Well, maybe one or two more papers, then I'd like to try
putting a course up. For courses, we'll probably package
just one or two chapters per book so people can buy just
the parts they want / need. Still debating amongst ourselves
about whether any courses we put out will have labs or not.
Not sure what content to put up first; happy to take suggestions.
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Steve Comstock
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a
Kindle!
Well, we're trying something new: looking at putting
content on Amazon.com for reading in Kindle's. The
details are below.
But first, I want to point out right away: you don't
need to own a Kindle to read our content (or any other
eBook on Amazon, for that matter).
* If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the
Kindle app for PCs from Amazon; for free. There are
also Kindle apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac,
and more.
This is pretty cool in and of itself. I think this
requires you to establish a Kindle account (also
free). If you have an Amazon account you can
piggyback on that.
Go to:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sa_menu_karl3?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771
Alternatively, you can use the Kindle cloud reader and
read Kindle books in your browser.
See:
https://read.amazon.com/about
================================
So for right now, we're experimenting by putting some of
our free papers into Kindle format: first we write a
significant update to the paper, to add value; next we
convert the new version to Kindle format and publish
to Amazon in their eBook library.
Our first foray into this brave new world is a major
rewrite of the paper "Coding AJAX Applications in z/OS":
We've updated some content to reflect changes in the
RFC, we've added two new examples, including one that
uses POST and a php CGI to process the POSTed data;
I also made some editorial changes.
The Amazon price is about 1/3 the price of just
purchasing the support files in our own Trainer's Friend
store, and the Amazon price _includes_ free access to
the support files, so you can download all the sample
HTML, COBOL source, and php source to experiment on your
own.
Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FY0EWI
Let us know what you think of this experiment.
--
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
The Trainer's Friend, Inc.
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