‘A Curvature Story’ is now freely available…
as an ePub at https://unconcise.com/bookshelf (use access code ‘FARMCafe’)
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 03, 2024 - 12:32:37.
An Evolution of an eBook…
I can vaguely recall the countless hours spent bringing my vision for an animated, interactive eBook to fruition. I first found a story and some characters (that perhaps only a mathematician could love), I then developed and coded the imagery and animations, which I then subsequently merged and layered in with researched mathematics into an Adobe Indesign document that could finally be exported to a fixed layout ePub.
This work flow proved to be a challenge, but finally, after so many hours, I had a fully functioning ePub…
…except…wait for it….
…all that remained was for this functioning ePub to pass the Apple Books ePubchecker and graphics sizing checks. I will spare you any further details (but I call out a mention to these undisclosed details for later reference), but needless to say that after many hours fixing the subtle issues that Apple Books identified, A Curvature Story finally made it to the Apple Books store is the version that can be previewed at https://unconcise.com/about/.
Figure 1: You can preview a sample of “A Curvature Story” on my website https://unconcise.com/about
And So the Book Remained on Apple Books for Awhile Until…
The problem with graphically intensive eBooks that I prefer to create is they are essentially code and sensitive to change in the digital book publishing environment. Apple Books recently took down my book and sent me a message saying that there was a problem with the metadata (author first name first not last name first), which meant I had to go back and try to fix the issue by “re-building” the ePub. The problem being that (recall those further details I left out above that I had to fix to make a functional ePub pass muster with Apple) I don’t have the patience to attend to all these details anymore. Fixing them would be a major pain. I have since learned how to be smarter about creating my graphically intensive, layered, and interactive ePubs so that fixing issues is 1/2 times a PAIN rather than 10 times a PAIN .
My Pain is Your Gain…
So rather than write a Second Edition of ‘A Curvature Story’ for publication back into the Apple Books environment, I am making the First-Fully Functional-ePub-Edition available for Free (with some caveats) to folks as a directly downloadable ePub file that can best be read using the Apple Books App or (Android) Lithium ePub Reader App. You are welcome to download the book at https://unconcise.com/bookshelf (use access code ‘FARMCafe’)
Figure 2: The ePub is best read with the Apple Books App or Lithium ePub Reader App
Donate to F.A.R.M Cafe…
If you do end up downloading and reading ‘A Curvature Story’ please consider donating to the Boone, NC based non-profit, community cafe called F.A.R.M Cafe (https://farmcafe.org/donate)
Figure 3: If you download the book, please consider donating to F.A.R.M Cafe (https://farmcafe.org/donate)
If You are Interested in More Books by Jason M. Osborne…
Figure 4: Consider further reading these books at https://unconcise.com/blog and https://unconcisemath.com