When are you going to realease it in epub?
Christmas headaches? We prescribe a year long course of BOFH
Still looking for that last minute stocking filler? Perhaps for a loved one? Like yourself? Well, have you considered spending Christmas and New Year's with the Bastard Operator from Hell? It costs less than the price of a pint to get your eyes round El Reg's collected BOFH 2011. Every one of the Simon and the PFY's …
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Tuesday 20th December 2011 15:35 GMT stucs201
Is it complete?
If so does this mean we could read the last one of the year, due on Friday 23rd early? Surely you're doing one last xmas themed one to round off the year and give your readers the xmas present they want. Ps post it a little earlier in the day than normal, we may well be heading to the pub once lunchtime arrives.
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Thursday 22nd December 2011 16:58 GMT Craig 28
Another vote for alternative format
I do not use Amazon's book service, I do not intend to use it. For me it's a more widely supported format like epub/pdf or get knotted.
I would have been happy to buy this ebook purely as a sign of support for BoFH, I could just as easily copy and paste the stories into a word processor myself for free and then convert them into a suitable format should I wish to. This format limitation however is something I find unacceptable. At the very least you could have released on iBooks as well, I know it's a lock in too but at least you could choose your poison.
(No the Kindle app on iOS isn't a suitable alternative to me, the app has no support for iOS' disability features unlike iBooks. The cheap Kindle device has no disability features and I refuse to buy the expensive Kindle just for a handfull of books I can't get from either iBooks or Audible UK)
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Thursday 22nd December 2011 23:56 GMT James O'Brien
you know
Its times like this I'm glad I have taken 2 years (alcohol called what can I say for the long time span) to copy all the bofh articles to date and put them in a nice file to read where ever. While this is a nice idea I would rather have a massive compilation vs this years limited selection...
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Wednesday 28th December 2011 11:13 GMT Andus McCoatover
OK, Kindle's one concept...
But I had a book, the Admiralty Signals Handbook (1931) which was a serious guide to radio. I gave it away to a work colleague, who was embarking on a career in wireless communication. (I'd refer to it regularly, as well as the 1947 "Signals handbook" (I think) which had wonderful pull-out charts and diagrams of T-E waves in a waveguide. The formulas and physics were as accurate then, as they are today.).
I wish now, I hadn't parted with them...
Point is, where's my Kindle in 5 years? In the same drawer as my other obsolete, broken stuff?