I am a huge fan of bandcamp, I buy most of my music because I can download the FLAC files and put them on my streaming server. I was rather disappointed that instead of providing polished, DRM free ebook files but went with a web based version that I cannot transfer to my ebook reader.
I would be more than happy to not only pay the authors but also for the work that you guys do by providing nice clean files.
There is another small thing that bugs me. Why did you choose to emulate books in your reader even down to turning pages? IMHO this is rather unnecessary, just presenting the book like a long article with well done typography would have been enough. (the reason, again IMHO, that ebook readers have virtual pages is that their displays are to slow to have smooth scroll)
I read a little of what you link. I have a concern: you are ignoring the current state of the market and hoping your new standard will be adopted. I have an eInk reader that is about 10 years old. It is serviceable. I put most of my eBooks on that for reading.
I won't consider a service that doesn't have the epub format. The first thing I do (before buying an eBook anywhere) is check to see if I can get it on my e-reader. I already have to jump through hoops to get my Amazon purchases onto it.
I won't use your service because it doesn't have what I need. And there are many people like me.
Hey dude, i went through this too. Getting away from the computer, meditating, yoga and hiking in the mountains helped me but still it took me a year and a half to get better.
If you feel too much pressure weighting you down go get proffesional help, even if it feels like a defeat.
Not to knock on this project, I use it and love it, but the learning curve involved here is not trivial. Using it basically requires that you're an accomplished frontend developer, and all this to just display some metrics on a page.
Nine different languages and libraries! Jesus H. Christ!
It's plain to see why outfits like Splunk can get away with charging as much as they do - visualizing metrics in that app is as simple as installing a deb package, logging in, and pointing it at your data source.
Setting up Dashing by hand is comparatively ...difficult.
You forgot Clojure. Riemann's monitoring config is written in Clojure.
There's a much more approachable all-JS Riemann clone called Godot that I've successfully used on multiple projects, but it still requires some work to make the frontend look good.
Yeah, that was kind of my line of thinking. I wanted to originally call it a static site generator but then got a lot of backlash because it was really "static" because of the Javascript.
I would be more than happy to not only pay the authors but also for the work that you guys do by providing nice clean files.
There is another small thing that bugs me. Why did you choose to emulate books in your reader even down to turning pages? IMHO this is rather unnecessary, just presenting the book like a long article with well done typography would have been enough. (the reason, again IMHO, that ebook readers have virtual pages is that their displays are to slow to have smooth scroll)