Re: A trick if you want to read a spec on the plane…

And if you are stuck with a Kindle, you can use Calibre
(https://calibre-ebook.com/download) to convert an epub to mobi with the
click of a button. Though the (static, not js) html source will also
render on a Kindle! (Old ones, at least.)

Amy

On 2.12.19. 15:53, Ivan Herman wrote:
> Some of you may have a long trip when coming to the F2F, and you may
> decide to use your time reading one of our drafts (or any other
> related W3C documents) while you are offline at 10,000 feet. A small
> trick that you may want to use: if you look at the editor’s draft
> (i.e., when it is still managed via respec), and if you push the
> respec button on the upper right hand corner, one of the choices is to
> download the document in epub format (if you do not know this format,
> it is the one used by all e-book readers these days except Kindle).
> You can then load the epub into a reader if your choice and off you
> go!, you can read the document offline… It is better (in my view, but
> I am biased) than doing the same in PDF: any decent e-book reader will
> give you the possibility to adapt, e.g., the font sizes and reformat
> for your particular screen, which PDF is not able to do.
>
> It is not perfect; the readers may not properly render things and the
> generated epub is not 100% compliant. That being said, on my iPad both
> Apple’s Book application (which is delivered with the iPad) and, for
> example, the (free) Marvin 3 reader does a good job…
>
> Just an idea:-)
>
> Ivan
>
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