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"Hacker Monthly": now available in e-book format

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I just got the paper version in the post yesterday and it's awesome! Keep up the good work, I'll definitely subscribe if ypu make that an option.

Agreed. Simply fantastic.

just got mine this morning — I thought I saw in the editor's note that you had no prior design experience. I don't believe you! =) Looks really, really great.

My only criticism is the giant blocks of text — breaking them up with a pullout quote/picture/chart would do wonders. (I worked in newspaper layout before getting involved in programming)

If you're looking for a design book, my newspaper swore by Tim Harrower's "Newspaper Designer's Handbook".

But again, excellent job! I'm excited for future issues, and, like @almost, you can also definitely count me as a subscriber.

Oddly enough, I find the print harder to read. Multi columns, distracting pictures, huge quotes to take me away from the content, and low font to line-height ratios...

I guess I've just gotten use to reading online, esp w/ readable.

Do you mean the pdf file?

The e-book version is based on html, so there are no multiple columns, and the text is flowable, searchable, resizable, etc.

I guess I'll have to try the e-book version and see what I'm missing out on.

Um, funny. That's what I enjoy the most about the paper version. I like that it feels a bit homebrew!

Is it just me, or has http://hackermonthly.com been Fireballed? I can't get it to respond.

Isn't "fireballed" a term used for when daringfireball.net/ John Gruber links to a website and it goes down?

Like the slashdot effect from simpler times.

Is there any way to get this into iBooks directly from the iPad, or do you have to sync with iTunes? If the latter, that's annoying.

Yeah, going through iTunes is a drag.

Unfortunately, that's the only way we know it will work.

Is it me, or is there no plaintext or PDF version?

PDF: http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-issue1-revised.pdf

Thanks ;-) Got it.

You can get the pdf from http://hackermonthly.com/ (which has been there since the first release), and if you want plain text, you can use calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) to convert the .epub file to .txt

I'm sorry, but I had to laugh when the "Hacker Monthly" blog post told me on which devices I would be able to read the eBook. You should know your audience a little better than that I think. Just being snarky :)

The easiest way to read the eBook: save the PDF to the eBook folder on your DropBox and it's already on all your devices.

I'm sorry, but I had to laugh when the "Hacker Monthly" blog post told me on which devices I would be able to read the eBook.

Well, to be fair to him, he just copied a section from one of our help pages (http://fifobooks.com/device_chart.html), since not everyone who visits our site knows how.

I agree with you, though, that it might have been unnecessary in this particular case.

Right, because every hacker news reader uses dropbox...

If they don't they should ;)

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