I haven't tried with the Antique pattern library but I have done this for some of Tess's & the Professor's texts on the weaving archive. It will depend on your book reader. With the Kindle and my reader, which is the Cybook from Bookeen (go the French! I find it much nicer than the Kindle), there are multiple ways of getting a book to your reader, you do not have to go through Amazon wireless.
You can use a library manager program like calibre. Connect you ebook reader to your pc by the usb connector. Calibre will detect it and you can manage content to synchronise a pc library and the reader library. You add to the pc library by "drag & drop" the file, or using the menu to add. Or you can treat the reader like a disk drive and open it from windows and drag and drop direct. The majority of PDF files are rather frustrating to work with on a reader. They are a what I call a 'wysiwyg' designed to capture exactly what a printed page looks like. They do not "reflow" for a smaller screen. I also find most don't convert well to other ebook formats - which you can try to do with calibre, it depends whether the pdf file was created with text recognition or just as an image of the page. Most are the latter and wont behave. However all is not lost. You can look at a pdf on many readers, but you have to balance the zoom between seeing the whole page (with too small a print), or parts of it at a time at a size you can read. I have managed a compromise. My reader allows me to rotate the page to read it 'landscape' rather than 'portrait' which means I generally see a page in two bites, quite practical for reading really. What really helps with these old books is a bit of editing. They have such generous margins of white space, which if cropped make the whole page size a bit more manageable for a reader. I use a free program called Briss, there is another caller pdf cropper which does this quite well. You open the pdf in the software, draw a rectangle close to the text margins, press crop and voila! Save as a cropped version and you still have the original to go back to. Finally I can recommend a great site called http://www.mobileread.com It has lots of forums offering advice on readers and software, and some really nicely formatted public domain books. It also posts on freebies and good book deals - well worth a browse. I hope this helps, Regards Louise In Cambridge, on a glorious almost summer's day, hoping to get home soon so I can sit in the garden and read "Romance of the Lace Pillow" on my ebook reader! - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
