Reading, and Not-Reading

[stoutfellow]

Following advice from kk1raven, I attempted to turn the Boole pdf into Kindle format, and achieved something resembling success; the lines were oddly broken, but readable. I began reading, satisfactorily until I reached Chapter V. At that point, Boole began computations, and the whole thing fell apart. Some of the equations involved multiple baselines - using, e.g., fractions in the traditional vertical numerator-over-denominator format. The conversion process proved incapable of dealing with this. An equation of the form "x = 2/3 y" (with the "2/3" vertical, as mentioned) appeared as follows:
2
x=y
3

Boole's pages were reduced to gibberish. I'm going to have to read it on my home computer. Pfeh.

Meanwhile (and how appropriate, on Talk Like A Pirate Day!) I've been reading Captain Blood. It's a crackling good yarn; Peter Blood is forced by circumstance into the role of gentleman rogue, but those around him are most definitely not gentlemen.... There are foul villains, women sturdy and frail, over-proud aristocrats, avaricious and low-class buccaneers, all the range of characters one expects in a story of this kind. I shall have to pull out the movie (starring, of course, Errol Flynn) and watch it after I finish the book.

Comments

[mmegaera]

I had a sneaking suspicion that the reason the book was a pdf to begin with was because it probably had formatting that a Kindle file couldn't handle. That happens with quilting books, too, and a lot of things that aren't straight text and photos, especially stuff that's been pdf'd by amateurs (as is most of Project Gutenberg material and stuff from other free-because-public-domain sites).

Sorry I didn't warn you against trying, but that's why I didn't recommend you do that [wry g].