on the display of one of our newer covers…like one of the Netwalkers books. Let me know if it’s displaying correctly or if you spot any ‘artifacts’ like a white border, etc.
Anybody have a Kindle Fire HD? We need a check…
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I wish I did, but I’ve just got a Fire.
I have an iPad 2, not the new Retina display iPad 4. Sorry, no Kindle Fire HD here. Happy to help test anything, though, if need be. 🙂 I may upgrade to an iPhone 5 from my current iPhone 3gs, sometime before the New Year.
I’ve had audio problems with my laptop that I can’t solve as yet. I’ll be trying out some new audio equipment this weekend, but it may be the laptop’s HW or the OS causing the problem.
Therefore, it’s possible, if my troubleshooting doesn’t work, I may go forth, ask about a Mac, and order one, before or after Thanksgiving. If so, I’ll have a Mac for audio and generally, and still the Win7 laptop. This could give y’all some ebook testing options. I don’t mind testing and I can keep my yap shut on work, despite that I post often. 🙂
I’ll let folks know what happens with my audio and if I will be taking the plunge back to a Mac.
I’ve got a kindle fire hd. They come in two sizes and I got the smaller size though. Does that matter? If you need me to view a picture on it you can send it to wild.cards at gmail. I display my work portfolio on it so I know the resolution needs. I’m going to bed right now, but can do it in the morning.
Thank you all. And you, Sweetbo. I think we have finally concluded that Kindle AND Nook make it as hard as possible to do any arrangement of cover and text that is handled in the same way…just to make it as hard as possible to do anything that goes in both.
Which is us.
So we’re doing something different: we’re putting the cover in not only as a cover but also as a frontispiece in color. So whichever trick the b—s try, you will get a full-screen image, either before or AFTER the title page. Nyah! to both Amazon and B&N.
Jane has reached absolute exhaustion, and today we are going to a filk party and enjoying ourselves—hoping our friends Patricia and Mike Briggs and maybe Sparky will make it up. It’s a potluck; I think I’m going to bake a loaf of bread. And we will have fun and get to see people, honest to God people! instead of dots on the screen.
Sounds good to me. I was out all day anyway. Went to the zoo, church, and a bbq joint that is gluten free. I’m over stimulated. Whoah. Whenever you send the file is cool and if you have any specific things I need to look out for besides just visuals let me know.
Happy to hear that you and Jane are taking a little time off for R and R. I have potter friends who forced themselves to take one day a week off….of course that goes out the window at this time of year, but they found they were more productive by taking time away.
Enjoy the day away!
Have a well deserved rest, party and camaraderie. We’ll see you when you’ve recuperated some.
That sounds marvelous.
I tested the Dragon app for iOS very briefly. I thought I’d throw some good French at it and see what happened. The results were comical in the extreme. I will need to see if it can be set to detect the language, or if I can tell it beforehand which language dictionary to use. But no, it does not guess that on the fly, and I can only guess it cannot do multilingual dictation on the fly. If I find otherwise, I’ll say.
The passage was the first few paragraphs of René Descartes’ Discours de la Méthode.
My French is not quite as rusty for reading or reading aloud as I’d feared. But my brain didn’t *process* as well as it should, while reading aloud, so I am rusty and need practice. My pronunciation was good. My comprehension when not reading aloud was…maybe a B or C, not an A, not as fluent as I was, slower, backtracking a bit. Still, I had expected more problems than I had.
I will nose around further and try it with just English. I’ll report what I find.
More on Dragon: I tested the Dragon app for iPad a bit more. I could mostly use it for English text. It works pretty well. But you have to say things like, new paragraph, punctuation marks, and apparently some capitalization. However, the biggest issue, at least for the app, possibly not for the Windows or Macintosh full programs, turns out to be important for anyone who deals with more than one language. That includes made-up science fiction or fantasy words. You have to set the app for a given language. It doesn’t know what to do, if, say, you have it set to English, the default, and you start throwing another common language at it, such as, oh, any of the ten or twenty most common world languages. Never mind any made-up words. Nor any words from ancient, real languages, say Latin or Anglo-Saxon or even Middle English. Hobbits, Elves, and Klingons are out of luck. You’d have to spell all that out.
So…although the app is a good start for single-language dictation, it is not handy if you are bilingual, or if you need to handle more than one language at once, or if you happen to want to write whatever that alien at the bar just said.
Yes, occasionally, I have needed to do all those.
The less said about that spacer’s bar the better…. What happens on Vega Three stays on Vega Three! Unless it hops a freighter to Vega Five….