My main aim in publishing Heres and Nows is that David Henschel's poetry should persist in the world.
What is good should live on, and this theme recurs a number of times in the poems themselves.
To this end, I am working on making Heres and Nows available in an inexpensive edition for e-readers like Kindle, Sony Reader and iPad.
I have to start somewhere, so I am starting with the Amazon Kindle machine.
On uploading the electronic pdf file via the Amazon web site I found that all my beautiful formatting had gone and the poems were jammed together with their lines concatenated. The thing was an unreadable mess.
What I thought would be the work of a few minutes is going to take me many weeks of work, tinkering about with html tags, replacing accented characters with their ASCII-codes, and creating links (because Kindle books don't have page numbers). It's lucky I have some web knowledge or this would be a non-starter!
When it's ready, you'll read about it first here.
What is good should live on, and this theme recurs a number of times in the poems themselves.
To this end, I am working on making Heres and Nows available in an inexpensive edition for e-readers like Kindle, Sony Reader and iPad.
I have to start somewhere, so I am starting with the Amazon Kindle machine.
On uploading the electronic pdf file via the Amazon web site I found that all my beautiful formatting had gone and the poems were jammed together with their lines concatenated. The thing was an unreadable mess.
What I thought would be the work of a few minutes is going to take me many weeks of work, tinkering about with html tags, replacing accented characters with their ASCII-codes, and creating links (because Kindle books don't have page numbers). It's lucky I have some web knowledge or this would be a non-starter!
When it's ready, you'll read about it first here.
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