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Ebooks on iPad and iPhone, etc.

April 5th, 2010

Cloud reflections and Mt Moran at the Oxbow Bend on the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Cloud reflections and Mt Moran at the Oxbow Bend on the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

I don’t have any new images to share, but I have been posting several newly scanned 4x5s on my Facebook Fan page.  I hope to have new work to share next week, after I return from a short vacation.

It is now possible to view my PDF ebooks on iphone, ipod touch or ipad. If you have one of these ebooks, or are thinking of buying one, use Good Reader app to view. Excellent resolution. If you try this out, esp on an iPad, let me know how it looks!   Good Reader app

William Neill ebooks

I still hope to offer my ebooks as apps, but we have not found an app designer or a PDF conversion that will work on iTunes.  If anyone has ideas or recommendations, let me know!

Lastly, my next BetterPhoto course, Inspiring Nature Photography Essentails, starts on Wednesday April 7th.  Spaces are still available!

Cheers,  Bill

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5 Responses to “Ebooks on iPad and iPhone, etc.”

  1. Mark says:
    April 7, 2010 at 8:52 pm

    Bill, I believe the iPad reads the ePub ebook format. I am not sure what software you used to create your books, but if it is InDesign CS4, I believe it can already export to ePub format. Then all a person needs to do is import that file to their iPad through iTunes, similar to how you would add a MP3 file.

    I don’t have my iPad yet, but certainly plan on exploring this myself a bit further when I do get one.

  2. William Neill says:
    April 8, 2010 at 1:10 pm

    Thanks for your thoughts. When the convert to epub selection is made, the book layout is lost. InDesign files were not made with epub in mind…

  3. Mark says:
    April 9, 2010 at 8:36 pm

    Good to know. I also read that converting PDFs to epub doesn’t work too well either now. I suppose there is a lot of room for improvement as far as photo books!

  4. David Leland Hyde says:
    April 12, 2010 at 12:53 pm

    Hi Bill. That is a beauty. It seems to me that drum scans of 4X5 film have a different color quality than digital photographs. There is a richness, subtlety and greater depth to the color somehow, wouldn’t you say?

  5. William Neill says:
    April 13, 2010 at 5:36 pm

    Thanks David. Yes, nothing like a good 4×5 scanned properly!

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