Re: Kindle e-Book service

[john richard helliwell <hellsquash@yahoo.com>]

 

Dear Brian,

(i) Please amend my EPC email address to :-

john.helliwell@manchester.ac.uk

 

 

(ii) the kindle device was featured in The Times this week. As they remark it looks a bit clunky at present; I would like to try one though!

 

 

 

Dear Lachlan,

Apologies for my ignorance but what is the NEXUS CD (re CCP14)?

 

Greetings,

John

 

 

Brian McMahon <bm@iucr.org> wrote:

> Quick note to welcome Bob Gould (ex officio as Crystallography
> World Wide Editor) to the discussion list of the Electronic
> Publishing Committee. The list has been
>  fairly quiet of
> late - I guess everyone has head down, working away.
>
> If you haven't already seen the Amazon Kindle e-Book reader
> and download service, it may be worth a quick glance:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/ref=amb_link_5873612_3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=00ESD85SWXD9HV7E773Q&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=329252801&pf_rd_i=507846
>
> Some interesting aspects here. In our opinion its usefulness is limited by
> the US-centric cellphone system required for downloading content.
> Nevertheless, we might try to get hold of one of these and load it up
> with crystallography texts for display at meetings. There are a number
> of IUCr/OUP books available (e.g. Mueller's Guide to SHELXL; see
>
> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_3?ie=UTF8&rs=154606011&sort=-price&keywords=crystallography&rh=n%3A154606011%2Ck%3Acrystallography )
>
> Doesn't look as though International
>  Tables is available in this format
> (although certainly some Springer titles are). It would be interesting to
> see what use these would be on the device's rather small screen.
>
> The underlying format is that of the Mobi e-Book reader. A couple of years
> ago we did some experiments for Howard Flack in exploring how useful this
> would be for technical material (I seem to remember we looked at a
> crystallographic pamphlet and a chapter of International Tables G). There
> are still significant limitations (the format is actually based on HTML).
> Nevertheless, I'm curious to see what they have done with these
> crystallography books; and I'm also intrigued by who has done the
> conversion, and what the arrangements with the publishers have been.
>
> Brian
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John R Helliwell
Professor of
 Structural Chemistry, The University of Manchester;
Honorary Scientist with CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory;
Coeditor of the Journal of Applied Crystallography published by the International Union of Crystallography;
Co-Editor of Crystallography Reviews published by Taylor and Francis;

President of the European Crystallographic Association.

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