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TheLibrary (version 2)

Published December 31, 2004 by lievenlb

Just in time for 2005 : a pretty good approx of what I had in mind
with TheLibrary.
The major new feature is one-page view. That
is, if you click on a bookmark or search-page link you will get a page
(as in the screenshot below) consisting of three frames. The left-bottom
frame contains the pdf file of _just_ the requested page, hence
your brwoser no longer has to download the full pdf-file to get at the
wanted page which speeds up the process. The downside is that you can no
longer scroll in neighbouring pages. To compensate for this there are
_previous page_ and _next page_ buttons in the top frame
as well as a link to the index and search page of the document.

An added bonus of this set-up is that the author of a document can
control what readers can do with these pdf-pages. For example, the pages
of 3 talks on noncommutative geometry@n
admit all features (such as content-copy, merging pages, printing etc.)
whence a determined reader can reconstruct the full pdf-document if
he/she so desires. On the other hand, the pages of version 2 can only be printed at a low
resolution and those of version 3 do not even permit this.

The bottom-right frame of the pages allow the reader
to read (and post) marginal notes wrt. the content of the document-text
(such as : extra references, errors, suggestions etc.). As always,
comments are great; obnoxious comments get deleted. Deal!
Once
again, if you like your courses and or books (on a subject from either
non-commutative geometry or non-commutative algebra) to be included in
TheLibrary email.
All scripts are adapted from the original
scripts from pdf
hacks.

FAQ

Published December 28, 2004 by lievenlb

This is the first version of a set of general frequently asked
questions relating to _NeverEndingBooks_. An extended and updated
version of it is at all times available from the sidebar under the
heading 'FAQ'. If you have a question and/or suggestion for
these FAQs, please email and it will be answered/used in an updated
version.

What is NeverEndingBooks ?
neverendingbooks.org is a
non-profit PublishingHouse specializing in courses and books on
non-commutative algebra and/or non-commutative geometry. Our authors
have a set of notes on a subject in na&g and hope to turn it into a
book one fine day. We offer them help throughout this process, from
secure on-screen viewing & commenting of their successive versions
to the production of a genuine hardcopy version distributed worldwide.
At all times we aim to keep the costs of our books minimal and the
royalties & copyrights for our authors maximal.
NeverEndingBooks' coordinates are :

NeverEndingBooks.org

c/o Lieven Le Bruyn
Department Mathematics UA
Middelheimlaan 1
B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium

URL : www.neverendingbooks.org
ISBN-prefix : 90-809390

Why NeverEndingBooks
?
We all complain about exaggerated prices of
mathematical books from certain publishers, poor quality of editing and
refereeing offered as well as far too stringent book-contracts. Rather
than lamenting about this, NeverEndingBooks gives itself one year to
learn (and report) about the many aspects of the book-production cyclus
and to explore whether an alternative exists. If at the end of this year
we will have produced at least one book this experiment will be
considered a success. If, however, we find out that it is an impossible
task, we will explain where it all went wrong and why it is better to
stick to an established PublishingHouse and accept its terms.

TheLibrary (demo)

Published December 23, 2004 by lievenlb

It is far from finished but you can already visit a demo-version of
TheLibrary which I hope will one day be a useful collection of
online courses and books on non-commutative algebra & geometry. At
the moment it just contains a few of my own things but I do hope that
others will find the format interesting enough to allow me to include
their courses and/or books. So, please try this demo out! But before you
do, make sure that you have a good webbrowser-plugin to view
PDF-documents from within your browser (rather than having to download
the files). If you are using Macintosh 10.3 or better there is a very
nice plugin freely
available whch you only have to drag into your _/Library/Internet
Plug-Ins/_-folder to get it working (after restarting Safari).
If you click on the title you will get a page with hyper-links to all
bookmarks of the pdf-file (for example, if you have used the hyperref package to
(La)TeX your file, you get these bookmarks for free). If you only have a
PDF-file you can always include the required bookmarks using Acrobat.
No doubt the most useful feature (at this moment) of the set-up is
that all files are fully searchable for keywords.
For example, if
you are at the page of my 3 talks on noncommutative
geometry@n-course and fill out “Azumaya” in the Search
Document-field you will get a screen like the one below

That is, you wlll get all occurrences of 'Azumaya' in
the document together with some of the context as well as page- or
section-links nearby that you can click to get to the paragraph you are
looking for. In the weeks to come I hope to extend the usability of
_TheLibrary_ by offering a one-page view, modular security
enhancements, a commenting feature as well as a popularity count. But,
as always, this may take longer than I want…
If you think
that the present set-up might already be of interest to readers of your
courses or books and if you have a good PDF-file of it available
(including bookmarks) then email and we will try to include your
material!

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TheLibrary (version 2)

FAQ

TheLibrary (demo)