First, links for the upcoming events mentioned:
I also mentioned Apple's iBooks Author software (www.apple.com/ibooks-author/), but you should be aware of criticisms to the effect that "Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books." In a vein similar to the Apple iBooks Author page linked here, Amazon also has a page describing its new KF8 format.
We also looked at a recent edition (6th ed, ver. 1.7) of Adobe's PDF Reference, which you can find here: www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference_archive.html. The section we glanced at, which deals with PDF-supported annotation types, is sec. 8.4.5.
Today's lecture slides are posted in the usual place -- including the full citation for the two terms from Kirschenbaum that we considered at the end.
And now, because we were talking about how the history of a text includes the unexpected meanings it accrues over time, here's Jay Z with the Magna Carta:
The 2014 Pages Festival + Conference, March 13-15: www.pagesfestival.comThe iSchool Student Conference 2014 -- Information in Formation: Building a Profession, March 21-23: www.ischool.utoronto.ca/isc2014The Book History and Print Culture program's student conference -- Toronto and the Book, March 28-29: torontoandthebook.blogspot.ca
Tonight only! Critical Gaming Night at Semaphore, in which a mystery selection of retro games will be played and considered, critically: www.eventbrite.ca/e/critical-gaming-the-rise-of-retro-gaming-tickets-10500283631?aff=eorgOn the topic of software for creating and working with e-pub files, the application I used in class today was Sigil (code.google.com/p/sigil/), but the most common application is probably Calibre (calibre-ebook.com).
I also mentioned Apple's iBooks Author software (www.apple.com/ibooks-author/), but you should be aware of criticisms to the effect that "Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books." In a vein similar to the Apple iBooks Author page linked here, Amazon also has a page describing its new KF8 format.
We also looked at a recent edition (6th ed, ver. 1.7) of Adobe's PDF Reference, which you can find here: www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference_archive.html. The section we glanced at, which deals with PDF-supported annotation types, is sec. 8.4.5.
Today's lecture slides are posted in the usual place -- including the full citation for the two terms from Kirschenbaum that we considered at the end.
And now, because we were talking about how the history of a text includes the unexpected meanings it accrues over time, here's Jay Z with the Magna Carta:
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