Read full EBooks on your CPC - new release by Prevtenet

[Prodatron]

Prevtenet, already known as the developer of the Zym Z-Machine, just released a noble collection of eBooks, using the chapter and hypertext capable .HLP format of the SymbOS help browser. This format enables documents with more than 100 nested chapters and total sizes of up to 1MB.

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Here...

http://www.symbos.org/media.htm?4

...you will find EBooks of the following classic public-domain literature, which all have been converted by Prevtenet:

• Alice in Wonderland
• Aristotle's Poetics
• The Art of War
• Beowulf
• The Call of the Wild
• A Christmas Carol
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Hamlet
• Lyrical Ballads
• Plato's Symposium
• three Sherlock Holmes short stories
• The Time Machine

And if you believe it or not,
the complete Bible
has been transfered to your CPC as well, with all 66 books, available in five different editions including English, French, German and Spanish.

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To make it perfect a whole 16,000-word English-language dictionary is included as well.

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All text and files are public domain except for the dictionary, which incorporates redistributable material from WordNet; see readme.txt in its archive. All files may be redistributed freely.

[00WReX]

That's cool 

[Gryzor]

Really cool indeed! Now I can retire my Kindle

[dodogildo]

Juicy. Now I wish there was a CPC tablet 

[Gryzor]

Juicy. Now I wish there was a CPC tablet 

e-paper, please

[Prodatron]

Juicy. Now I wish there was a CPC tablet 

At least you should be able to use an NC100/200 soon and stay within the Amstrad world

[Skunkfish]

Suddenly classic literature seems much more appealing! Whats the best way to generate these .HLP files?

[Prodatron]

Haha, yes, indeed, I had the same thought when I got these files from Prevtenet

I have two non published scripts for generating HLP files, an actual one for Python and an older one for VB.NET.
First you convert the text into a HTML-like document, which can be displayed in a browser.
Then you use my script to generate a .HLP file (and optional another one for compressing it, but this requires SymbOS 4).

If you are interested, I can send you the script + some documentation how to prepare a HTML, so that it can be converted into HLP.


Meanwhile I added a genre filter to the download section:
http://www.symbos.de/media.htm?4-5
...and as I couldn't resist: 10 s&s fantasy novels of one of my favourit authors have been added as well.

[Skunkfish]

It would be amazing if you could provide the scripts. What's the maximum file size for a .HLP? I'm guessing the compressed versions would be considerable smaller...