Spontaneous ∂erivation

Yes. It is here.

Update! Ask and ye shall sometimes receive, if it is within my power. A PDF version is now available, with clicky links and everything. Please see Locations below.

Update #2! No one asked, but I created an LRF file for older Sony Readers that can’t read ePub files. I don’t have a Sony Reader, though, so I’m not sure how it turns out; I think the formatting might actually look different than the corresponding ePub, even though they’re all from the same source files….

Note: Remember: these are an unofficial—if legal—conversion. Both the original and these conversions are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license.

Schedule: I plan on doing the episodes as individual files, with “up to now” season compilations as a separate, updated ebook file. Eventually the individual episodes will expire (but that won’t be until season end) and there’ll just be the Season 2 Ebook.

Exciting Features:

• Episode 1 in mobile reading form.
• Pretty cover for your ebook device/software.
• Typographical quotes and dashes!
• All episode-specific easter eggs and extras included.

Locations:

If you own a Kindle or other device/program that can read Mobipocket files (.MOBI):
  Shadow Unit - 2x01 - Lucky Day (Kindle/Mobipocket) (153.9 KiB, 440 hits)

If you own a Sony PRS-505 or later, Adobe Digital Editions, or some other device/program that can read EPub files (.EPUB):
  Shadow Unit - 2x01 - Lucky Day (Epub) (344.3 KiB, 289 hits)

If you own anything that can read a PDF file (bonus if it can deal with links in a PDF file):
  Shadow Unit - 2x01 - Lucky Day (PDF) (135.5 KiB, 317 hits)

If you own an older Sony that cannot read EPub files and don’t want to use the PDF above¹:
  Shadow Unit - 2x01 - Lucky Day (Sony) (157.6 KiB, 279 hits)

Enjoy!

Need Season 1?

It’s currently only available for the Kindle, but can be converted via calibre for Sony. (It’s a huge file, relatively speaking, for an ebook).

Screenshots!

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1. It’s not form-factored for a small screen, still need to figure out how to do that with the tools I have on hand. [↩]

As of this writing, calibre, which can convert many things from one format to another featuring command-line tools, does not convert LRF to HTML, or indeed, to most anything else other than LRS, an XML format. Currently this is not a high-priority item to fix in calibre itself, because calibre is aimed at converting things to LRF. (The ePub conversion is still relatively new and shiny.)

ETA: Here’s the LRS specification.

So. Heck. Why not. I’m using Ruby, by the way, because Ruby has the kick-ass REXML library, which also forms the cornerstone for my ruby-epub stuff (still in the making).

Geekery after the cut.

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