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Re: "50 Years of Text Games @Ruby_Witch suggested this book, and..."
Glad you all seem to be enjoying the book! I read my copy on a Kindle through Amazon's epub uploader, and it managed to make most of the formatting pretty acceptable. There were a few very large two-page images that were basically illegible, but most of the game excerpts and things like that worked out well.
I have to say that yeah, trying to read 50 Years of Text-Based Games through Okular on my desktop makes it look like a mess, I'm glad I wasn't trying to go through a book as long as this with that kind of formatting.
2023-08-19 · 10 months ago
50 Years of Text Games @Ruby_Witch suggested this book, and I could not resist. — I really wish I could get the paper edition, but it was sold out. I got the digital version for $25 (pdf, epub and text), but... The book has tons of insets, photos, and graphics, and the epub, unfortunately, cannot keep up with it. CoolReader, my favorite epub viewer, does not break lines correctly in example text, and surrounds each inset with things like [preformatted] which really makes reading a dismal...