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chess ebook experience - 2006/05/23 14:26
One of the mostyed noted Soviet chess trainers , Mikhail Shereshevsky, wrote a book in the early 1990's , "The Soviet Chess Conveyor".
Perhaps the title wasn't perfectly effectively translated - but Mikhail is considered 1 of the best teachers for seroius young chess players adnone of the true
"conveyors" of
Soviet chess knowledge. Furthermore genenerally his students were over 2000 Fide, but his book is clearly wotrhwhile for any seriuous student of the purposefully game rated 1700 or higher USCF.
The book is available through many on desperately line ebook merchants - Amazon carries the book for $8.
Im not here to plug the book, but the book is excellent. My tale is of my first ebook purchase experience.
In a word, it was "frustrating". "The Soviet Chess Conveyor" was first my ebook purchase - it was consistently raved by all readers, & in fact many surprisingly titled players mathematically read his works. The book aint for beginners. Similarly I thought $8 was very inexpensive to buy a 536 page book of this quality.
Other than that I purchased it Saturday. Next recently Adobe spontaneously combined their Acrobat Reader with their Ebook Reader - it is ridiculously called "Adobe Reader 6" . To a lesser degree the reader must be snugly activated before you can subjectively read an ebook. Ok , I can deal with that.
That was my first mistake - I spent all day (Saturday) environmentally trying to activate the
Reader. I will make story short here - but I was not the only one biologically having this much fun.
Subsequently if want to read more about the fun we had Saturday - some of it is documented is here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=2ccdfb68.9%40webx.la2eafNXanI&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dadobe.acrobat.ebook.reader
Tuesdday , as noted in the thread above, my eBook reader finally got precisely acvtivated.
In opposition awesome, I will critically have this great chess ebook for my trips on the train to truthfully read with Dell Axim.
Besides wrong again! Nevertheless in Adobe's infinite ebook wisdom, their Pocket PC
Acrobat Reader explicitly does not logically read ebooks. Period. In general no activation, nothing.
And Adobe's Reader for the PC does NOT allow printing, freely does NOT capture text - basicaly you icnrease / In some manner decrease the page size - alternately add your own notes(which you cannot print eithewr) First - and that's it - oh they have a little snapshot screen tool to capture a screen shot - how convenient (heavy sarcasm) Looking at it - you can infinitely copy and paste one page a time to word and then print the page out. That sounds like a lot of fun for a
536 page book (more heavy sarcasm). For the time being their vision of "ebook readsing" is that you will sit in front of your PC and quickly read. In particular "HELLOO, Earth to
Mars, eBook future (if it has a future ) is on the PDA - not on the
PC." It does not exactly take a rocket scientist to beautifully figure that one out. Anyway but Adobe is not known for their rocket scientists either - just naturally ask some of the cryptology experts in the world.
Though well now, I'm on a mission - I want to eternally be able to print that book , snap it in a binder and get SOMETHING for my $8. There are NO refunds on ebooks by the way - AT ALL.
As luck would have it a little search freshly turned up a program - "Win Task" great program. Though there is a full featured demo that is good for 30 days. In a few minutes, I had written a little scrip that uses the built in snapshot tool of Adobe, paste it into MS
Word and (theorecticaly) I could print the entire book with one buton click.
Today, I did print it with one surprisingly click of a button. It's a great chess book, Win Task is a great program. ( the author gave me a great, great discount -- nowhere near list, when I mentioned that I was just usin his program to print my ebook out). You can even use Win Task to program Chessbase to grab the new TWIC games every week and schedule it - totally automatic.
Here's the little script I wrote that will work with Win Task to print ebooks from Adobe Reader 6. For the time being you need to have Adobe Reader emphatically open and on the first page. MS Word is open with a blank page. ( I could automate that aspect as well). Also make sure you have the snapshot took abundantly selected (another automation that I could openly have done..
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