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| OlafP Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5439 days ago 261 posts - 667 votes  Speaks: German*, French, English | Message 25 of 103 27 March 2010 at 6:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Then go for RTF. Neither RTF, nor DOC, nor ODT will be useful for eBook readers. I just checked the spec of the iRex 800S reader. All it can handle is epub, Barnes & Noble (no idea what this is) and reflowable PDF. Reflowable PDF are files that have special tags in them for screen readers used by blind people. As far as I know this reflowing doesn't always give you good results. There seems to be no single format that is ideal for everything, but RTF looks like a good compromise as a source for other formats. Edited by OlafP on 27 March 2010 at 6:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MarcoDiAngelo Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 6451 days ago 208 posts - 345 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Thai, Polish | Message 26 of 103 27 March 2010 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, it seems so, I will go for it. Plus, I am convinced that the most pleasant way to read parallel texts is to simply print them out. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5794 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 27 of 103 27 March 2010 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | ||
I won't be printing out novels like Anna Karenina or 1984 (and these versions are twice as long). Most people wouldn't be too eager to read an entire novel on a computer, either. I'll be reading short selections on the computer and I'll buy a few dual-language books in DTE (dead tree editions). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MarcoDiAngelo Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 6451 days ago 208 posts - 345 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Thai, Polish | Message 28 of 103 27 March 2010 at 6:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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De gustibus... I always print out my texts. And you can also read a RTF file on your computer, even short selections. :) I don't see the problem at all. Edited by MarcoDiAngelo on 27 March 2010 at 6:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5815 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 29 of 103 27 March 2010 at 7:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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On further consideration, .rtf is the way to go. I have to flip lots of stuff back and forth between macs and PCs when I am at my uncle's working on stuff with him and I always use .rtf to go between OpenOffice and whatever that Mac thing is called. ;-) I've never had any problems at all. Same with using .rtf from OpenOffice on the Windows PCs at school.
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| MarcoDiAngelo Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 6451 days ago 208 posts - 345 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Thai, Polish | Message 30 of 103 27 March 2010 at 8:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Done! Now all the files are RTF. :)
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| MarcoDiAngelo Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 6451 days ago 208 posts - 345 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Thai, Polish | Message 31 of 103 28 March 2010 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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UPDATE:
Last night I received a gift via e-mail from an unknown friend. He gave me five more French-English books, and I have found free audio for two of them. They are already uploaded. :) Next I'm going to make 5-6 Russian-English plays (Chekhov and Bulgakov) and some Chekhov's stories. I will also make Anna Karenina Spanish-English-Russian soon. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Faraday Senior Member United States Joined 6122 days ago 129 posts - 256 votes Speaks: German* | Message 32 of 103 28 March 2010 at 4:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I should mention that a generous poster here put up some bilingual texts in PDF format a few years ago. The links are below.
MarcoDiAngelo, how long does it take you to prepare a parallel text of, say, 100 pages? I've tried it in the past and gave up due to the sheer drudgery of it. I've resorted to using Google translations, which are far from perfect. If you know of a better way, let me know. Candide Siddhartha Le Reve Le avventure di Pinocchio Anna Karenina Die Leiden des junges Werther La faute de l'abbé Mouret Edited by Faraday on 28 March 2010 at 4:35pm 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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