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http://practicaltypography.com/

This one is ruining my life.

There are many good tips in that book. I especially like these:

The ex­cla­ma­tion point is overused. Give your­self a bud­get of one ex­cla­ma­tion point for any doc­u­ment longer than three pages. If you must use it, use it wisely.

Never use more than one ex­cla­ma­tion point in a row, un­less you’re a teenager send­ing a text mes­sage. Srsly.

http://practicaltypography.com/question ... oints.html

And this one: http://practicaltypography.com/goofy-fonts.html

"No, no, no, no, and hell no."

Nov­elty fonts, script fonts, hand­writ­ing fonts, cir­cus fonts—these have no place in any doc­u­ment cre­ated by a pro­fes­sional writer. Save them for your next ca­reer as a de­signer of break­fast-ce­real boxes.

^ Oh yes.
But I've been working again on my website because of that book, so I hate that guy! ;)

This looks like it will be a valuable (and much needed resource.) Thanks for sharing Gekko, and for elaborating pids... I know a few grad students who could also use it, sadly.

Good call-outs, pidsley. Also, no Comic Sans, no Papyrus.

I hope toi/figlet ascii fonts aren't included in the 'novelty fonts' damnation.. :)
You may be dissapointed in france, the people who invented art deco etc (or at least gave them the name) seems any public signs/typography when/where i was - seemed to be MS word templates, you can almost date the design by the newer templates from MS word.. shocking.

I've got 4 ebooks (PDF and mobi) about TCM:

Foundations Of TCM - Michael Ching, Kwei Kang
Principles of Chinese Medicine - Angela Hicks
The Complete Book of Chinese Medicine - Kit, Wong Kiew
The Guide Book of TCM - Youngjong Sihn

If anyone is interested, PM me (tell me the format).

I found this Russian site, with loads of downloadable ebooks, in various formats ePub, PDF etc etc.
And the topic is Bash scripting, from rooky to advanced. Some of them you might know about, as this is the BBQ after all ;)
http://en.bookfi.org/g/bash%20script

cheers
simon

Ps: Happy reading!

Thanks for the source.

for those who might want to read more about Chaos Magick.
1. Jan Fries - Visual Magick: http://e-x-a.org/stuff/books/jan-fries- ... magick.pdf
2. Peter J. Carroll - Liber Null & Psychonaut: https://zalbarath666.files.wordpress.co ... honaut.pdf

I'll put it here.

Since I just can't buy every IT book I need in its real paper form, I am considering an e-book reader, but I know nothing at all when it comes to e-book readers.

I know, I know, I'm not the touch-screen guy, but money is not on my side and those damn books cost way too much. At the same time, reading PDFs on my lappy is not the best solution for my eyes. I have been doing it for the last 15 years, now I'm getting old and eyes are not that good anymore.

I'm willing to pay up to € 100,00 for this device, more would not be easy. Also, if I have to zoom in/out and scroll left/right too much to read a PDF I won't consider the reader at all.

Any suggestion?

^ I can only say that the Kindle is super-nice to read (I don't own one, but my mother has a few of them). I don't quite remember how well it renders graphics, but for text it's really very smooth. I think it was the Paperlight I tried, but it might also be the previous version.
Been thinking about buying some Ebook reader, too, but unfortunately (lol) I already have two Galaxy Tabs which I use nearly exclusively for reading Ebooks. I recommend Ebookdroid as reader software: it has a nice 'night mode', a 'negative mode', automatic crop, different scrolling options for turning the page, force landscape or portrait, and several different fonts to choose from. And best of all, it reads PDF, mobi and Epub (probaby djvu too). It's not open-source anymore, but it's for free, and I love it.
So if you have some kind of Android tablet at hand, have a try with Ebookdroid first. https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... roid&hl=de

^ Thanks. A Kindle is the first one I thought of, too. Does it manage huge PDFs (~ 30/40MB) smoothly or I will need to insanely scroll and zoom?

Damned, I just remember that Kindles don't support PDFs by default, only mobi (IIRC! not sure how newer Kindles handle PDFs). Those days, when I used a Kindle, it was *not* my own PDF I was reading, this I remember for sure!
You would probably have to batch-convert all PDFs with Calibre or some other pdf2mobi tool. There are some Kindles here in China that are not sold in Europe (but in the USA? you know how Europe is with DRM, and especially Amazon!) and they support all the aforementioned formats, because the Chinese prefer djvu for ebooks, and they also have a text2speech built in.
Of course if you buy stuff from Amazon, a Kindle is a good choice, but if you already have a bunch of PDFs, it's not an option. As said before, an Ebook reader can somehow handle PDFs (by disassembling them and reorganizing the elements) better than a Kindle.
I'd recommend asking a friend or somebody if you can install ebookdroid on somebody's tablet (a 7-inch one should be large enough for relaxed reading, 10 inch would be really great IMO), and then scan in some PDFs for a test. These 7 or 10 inch tablets are not expensive, especially if you get some no-name shit, maybe even 2nd hand, then turn off the wifi and keep the fucker plugged in when you don't use it.

This: http://www.amazon.it/dp/B00JG8GBDM/
It says it supports: (AZW3), Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, MOBI non protetto, PRC nativo; HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP con conversione.
I'll have a look at ebookdroid, but I need sister's tablet for that. :)

fwiw, i find on my GFs Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 or so, the Kindle app to be quite shitty. not sure about the actual device.
as for ebook apps, i like Moon+Reader, but am currently using Pocketbook, which is nice as well.

@manu, I think the problem lies in the PDF per se: if the PDF has margins, you will need to zoom in and out on the Kindle. And that's quite unkind-le :D

^ Damn! Ok, I'll try some of these things before buying.

^ that's what a good ebook reader software does for you: remove the margins. Maybe Calibre can do the same (haven't used it in years) and export to mobi or epub, if you ever decide to get a Kindle. You are anyway half-way GNOME3, so you can have a try it for kicks :D

^ Oh, didn't know about Calibre. Thanks.