I started to read books on my iPhone. I picked some I want to read, and loaded into my iPhone. Surprise! PDF files are awful for reading in the small iPhone screen. Then I found the ePub format, much more easier to read as all the presentation is handled by the Books app.
But not every book is available in ePub format, so, what to to? After some digging I found Sigil (http://code.google.com/p/sigil/), a small tool that allows to create ePub files from scratch, and also edit existing ones.I is very easy to create ePub files using Sigil, at least for me with my 20+ years of experience with HTML...
So I told myself: what if I start creating my own ePub files? I chose this book titled "The First And Last Men", by Olaf Stapledon (english version), and put my hands at work. As soon as I finish I will publish it on this blog. (in not more that a month!)
UPDATE 1: found some ePub versions already available, but none of them was ok. I like quality stuff, and did not find any version with a working/complete table of contents or correctly formated text. So proceeding anyway!
UPDATE 2: work in progress going fine... discovered the book contains four images, but cannot find any Pdf or ePub containing them. Anyone has the actual book? Can you scan them for me?
UPDATE 3 (aug-15): finished transcription of the book. Now I'm reading it from start to finish, and I already discovered a lot of errors and glitches. As I said, I want to produce a quality product.
UPDATE 4 (aug-28) finished reading & correcting. Published here.
