Cory Doctorow for the Books.app (iPhone/iPod Touch)

Books.app IconIt is important to note that I’m really into the writings - and general musings in any form of media - of Cory Doctorow. So much so that when I decided to order his second and third novels on Amazon.ca and found out it would take 6-8 weeks to ship I was furious. Fine. Disappointed. How could I be denied my precious books for so long. The tactile and olfactory pleasure of the paper novel is unrivaled. Sure, I could have walked down to my local book shop on Bloor St. in the Annex of Toronto and they most surely would have copies of each but eff, I’m in bed - I was at the time - and don’t want to move. I guess the tactile and olfactory pleasure of the paper novel is rivaled. It’s rivaled by the combination of the comfort of my girlfriends bed, my iPod Touch and my wireless internet. It’s rivaled most for my love of the Project.

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I just bought a new iPod Touch. I’ve just installed an eBook reader. I should make myself useful and take Cory up on his desire to have the general public mutate - within the bounds of the respected Creative Commons License - his work to our needs. It took about 5 minutes for me to adapt Eastern Standard Tribe’s distributed html file into the directory structure and loading size required for the reader and I was off to the races.

Since then I have actually put together a zip file for each book. The book is split into several html files - one for each chapter - for ease of navigation and to lighten text load times.

This may be obsolete very soon but that’s ok. It’s a solution for the time being. Please enjoy these wonderful novels from Cory Doctorow in all their splendor:

someone_comes_to_town_by_cory_doctorow-1.0.zip

eastern_standard_tribe_by_cory_doctorow-1.0.zip

Note: You may insert an img file named cover.jpg (preferably width of 300px) into the root directory of the books and it will load in the cover page of the book as well as in the eBook browser. I can not distribute the covers because as beautiful as they are, they’re not mine to distribute.

Regards

Ben