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by Ben Huot

ben@benjamin-newton.com

www.benjamin-newton.com

Discover My Free Thinking Christian Collections

This includes all the academic books compiled into 2 collections

 

Red Letter Editions of Collections

 

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The Red Letter Edition is 6 in x 9 in (in US Trade Paperback size), has quotes in red letters, includes graphics, and contains all formatting, including: page numbers, headers, footnotes, margin notes, and all other formatting of actual print version of book you can order. This file is meant to be read on the computer screen.

 

The Interactive Version has, in addition, hyperlinked tables of contents and the Interactive E-book/PDF version has, in addition: bookmarks, my web address and email hyperlinked, graphics are all vector based, and all the (free Postscript) fonts used are embedded in subset.

 

The Prepress Version is a special PDF with the entire fonts used in the document embedded and without any of the hyperlinks or bookmarks or anything else that doesn't print. This format is specially formatted for my publisher, Lulu.com, and is inferior for viewing on screen or printing out on a desktop printer.

 

The Large Print Editions are the same as the Red Letter Editions except the font size is 18 pt and the paper size is US Letter.

Plain Versions of Collections

 

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these are in a standard size for a desktop printer with only black text

 

The Desktop Printer Version contains the PDF version of book that is formatted US Letter size with 1 inch margins, table of contents, header stating title, footer containing page number, graphics removed and only black and white text for easy printing out on a desktop printer. This special PDF is formatted with bookmarks, is tagged for accessibility, and is in a special sub format of PDF called PDF/A-1A which is designed for archival purposes so it should be future proof. 

 

The Open Source Friendly version is an Open Document text file format version of the books. This version can be viewed in OpenOffice.org, Sun StarOffice, NeoOffice, Corel Word Perfect, Google Docs, Lotus Symphony, Abiword, Koffice, and more. The conversion has preserved most of the formatting of the PDF and structure of the original LaTeX source file. It was mostly designed with structure and styles, the graphics were removed and the text is just black and white. It is also designed to print out on a standard desktop printer at US Letter size with 1 inch margins, table of contents, header stating title, and footer containing page number.

Mobile Versions of My Free Thinking Christian Collections

 

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Handhelds Version is in the eReader pdb format and can be viewed on the iPhone/iPod Touch, PalmOS, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile Pocket, and PC/Smartphone handhelds with eReader. This is also the official format of e-books for Barnes & Noble. Barnes and Noble Nook e-book reader can open this format as well as the Apple Mobile version.

 

Apple Mobile Version is in the standard epub format and can be viewed on the iPhone/iPod Touch, Windows, and Mac OS X with Stanza, Apple iPad tablet with included iBooks e-book reader software, Barnes and Noble Nook e-book reader, and Google phones with FBReaderJ or Aldiko.

 

Amazon.com Kindle Version is in the Mobipocket format and can be viewed on the Amazon Kindle, the free Kindle Reader (for the iPhone/iPod Touch), and with the free Mobipocket Reader (for Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Java ME, BlackBerry, Psion, and iLiad handhelds and e-readers).

 

Libris can be used to view Apple Mobile Version and Amazon Kindle Version ebooks on the iPhone/iPod Touch, Google phone, and Nintendo DS.

 

iPod Notes Version works on any iPod that connects to your computer via a dock. To use, select "enable disk use" under the iPod preferences, put your iPod notes e-book into "notes" folder on iPod disk, and then choose "extras" and then "notes on iPod".

My Free Thinking Christian Collections for Sight Impaired Persons

 

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Daisy XML Version is a special structured "talking book" format, for people suffering from blindness, impaired vision, dyslexia, or other "print disabilities". The structured document works with a compressed audio file, so that you can navigate the audio file by chapter or by section, without having to listen through the entire thing. It is like the difference between a cassette tape and a DVD or an audio CD.

 

I have only included the structured part. You can produce the audio, from this format, very easily. The Daisy XML files can be read in large print on screen, on a Braille display, or with a screen-reader. It an also be further converted to a talking book, using a computerized voice, and printed in Braille, or in a large print format in a physical book.

 

I have verified the Daisy XML file and it should be valid. It can also be viewed in a web browser as well. I have also successfully converted it to the Daisy Talking Book audio format with Daisy Pipeline and then to a generic MP3 file format and an iTunes Audio Book format successfully with DTB2iTunes, but I have not put either of these audio versions online, because of the size of the files (they are too big for me to upload).

 

There is free software for viewing this file format, but as far as I can find, they are only available for Windows. There is also an open source program for Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc that is called EmacSpeak, although I couldn't get it to work on Ubuntu. I think it requires some sort of computer hardware device to work it.

 

BRL Braille Version is in a MicroBraille (Non-ASCII-Braille) file format that can be read by ED-IT PC/Braille 2000, Microbraille, MegaDots, and Pokadot. I have not been able to verify this file.

My Free Thinking Christian Collections for E-Book Reading

 

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In any of my book formats, other than the Red Letter Edition, the text can be resized and can be reflowed, to make it adjusted to your e-book reader device shape, orientation, size, readability, and personal taste. You can adjust this at any time you want. Most of these versions are designed with structural elements like headings which your e-reading device should allow you to navigate between. The versions with these qualities are the Plain Versions, Mobile Versions, and Sight Impaired Versions. The Large Print edition is easier to read for those who have eye problems, but they cannot be resized or reflowed, so they are ideal mostly for printing out or for those who cannot figure out how to adjust the letter size on their e-book reading device.