The kids have finally got their fingers out and sorted the technical problems with creating Kindle editions. Or Rather Lexie has. And all just for cash money.
He's done two so far, "Porter!" and "Decoction!".
After he's gone to all that trouble. it would be a shame if none of you bastards bought them.
Splendid. Don't forget to link to the .com version of Amazon as well, for the non-UK readers (we can't buy Kindle books from Amazon.co.uk): http://www.amazon.com/Porter-Mega-Book-Series-ebook/dp/B007GLY84U/
Some criticism: although it's converted to the Kindle mobi format, it doesn't quite take advantage of the format. For one, the table of contents is very ugly (broken lines from simply converting the paper book's lay-out), listing page numbers that are of course irrelevant to an ebook. It still works, so I can use it to jump to whichever chapter I choose. However, the chapters themselves don't work, so I can't jump from chapter to chapter by sliding up or down on the Kindle Touch.
At least one table is not a table but a mess of almost unreadable numbers (Whitbread Porter and Stout grists 1805 1844). Make that two (Output of the largest London breweries 1750 - 1815 as well). Notes look like part of the body text. Bullet points appear as some other weird unicode signs.
The text itself is readable enough, although some of it seems more appropriate for the blog format.
Bier Beleving Oss
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Dit kleine festival vond dit jaar al voor de vierde keer plaats, maar voor
mij was het de eerste keer. De voorgaande keren viel het denkelijk steeds
samen ...
Brew Day: American Amber Ale
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While I am not old enough to remember the glory days of amber/red ale back
in the mid-nineties, I did drink my share of the stuff when I first started
buyi...
Saison Dupont Dry Hop
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I've been on sabbatical for about six weeks now, and although I'm keeping
busy improving my French, this period is naturally evolving into a time for
some...
Royal Oak, Downing Street
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Royal Oak, Downing Street. (c) Alan Gall [1].
Seen here in 1959, the Royal Oak was a Manchester Brewery house on the corner of Downing Street and Tipping St...
Fieldhead Fest
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The Fieldhead at Quarmby is holding a small festival over the bank holiday
weekend. From the 1st to the 4th June, 30 beers including 2 or 3 "Jubilee"
speci...
Ølfestival København 2012: Mere dækning
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Mere fra Ølfestival København 2012. På billedet bærer Søren Parker Wagner,
Croocked Moon Brewing på Jonas Danielsson fra den svenske importør Brill &
Co (f...
On a Tripel Tip
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Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog
The itch to brew a Belgian-style tripel has been with us for a while but,
after a bad experience with Belgian yeast a few yea...
Exactly a month
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...since my last post and virtually nothing in the month before that. It's
hard to break a habit but once it's done it's just as hard to regain it.
It isn't...
Up the republic
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A poll published today shows that sixty-nine per cent of people in Britain
support the monarchy, the highest level for over a decade. Apparently,
support f...
Duh-nuh, Nun-uh, Nun-uh, You Say It's Your Birthday!
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Not only is this my 150th post, but today is also drinkdrank's 1st
birthday—oh, they grow up so fast! To celebrate, I thought I'd do a
retrospective of som...
Swedish Home Brewing Championships this weekend
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This weekend home brewers throughout Sweden will be converging on Uppsala
to compete in the 2012 SM och SkM i Hembryggd Öl (Swedish Home Brewing
Championsh...
Session Hopping
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Reading the ever interesting Boak and Bailey yesterday, I was intrigued by
a comment about St Austell's Proper Job as failing "as a session beer
because it...
Endangered Species
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As *CAMRA* celebrates Mild Month, with the aim of promoting a style of beer
that was in danger of disappearing from our pubs, it is perhaps a fitting
time...
What an odd label
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Lunch Bier? What is that supposed to mean? I’ve heard of Dinner Ale (and
breakfast stout), but Lunch Bier is a new one on me. What it was, I have no
idea. ...
It's Your Round
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And talking of cheap beer; if a pint of industrial fizz is your thing, then
you should book a holiday to Tajikstan. Sure it’s got a poor human rights
recor...
A few quick reviews (II)
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In view of the enormous success the first edition was (and because I can't
be arsed with writing anything else today), here's another roundup of short
rev...
Helsingborgs Lakrits
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För knappt två månader sedan beställde jag några lokala öl från
Systembolaget. Dels för att få tag i öl jag var nyfiken på, dels för att
testa hur det fun...
Encountering Iceland
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I accepted a junket to visit Iceland's *Ölvisholt* brewery from Belgian
beer importer *Vanberg and DeWulf*, partly because I've known them for so
long -- *...
Baladin – a taste of Italy
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As regular readers will know, when I started this blog, I was a fairly
regular visitor to Italy, giving me a unique opportunity to get som
glimpses into th...
The Quite Bearable Lightness of Boozing
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As I sipped last night on a dram of 46.1% alcohol Mackmyra First Edition
Whisky, I mused on the nature of alcoholic strength and the unlikely
conflict and ...
Never pass a beer with your name on it
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That's my reason for picking up this bottle of Harrington's *Big John*. The
label makes a suspicious comment about it being "brewed with a hint of
Bourbon"...
Brewing at the Bull
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Paid my first visit to the Bull in Highgate yesterday - as well as being a
rather nice pub with great food and beer, it's the home of London Brewing Co.,
...
Hey, look! It’s a black kettle!
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Once upon a yesterday, I was scrolling through my Twitter feed, when I
happened upon a tidbit from DRAFT Beer Editor Chris Staten. It pointed to
his recent...
Dire predictions about CAMRA come true
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* "CAMRA officially breaks 140,000 members! 12.9% growth in the last year."*
Tweet from @tonyjerome CAMRA's Head of Marketing.
It's seems that as many beer...
Pivo
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*Down in the cellars of PU in 2005; in 2010
this unfiltered PU came in a plastic cup…*
In his perceptive essay *Pivo at the Heart of Europe* (Drinking Cult...
Endangered beers
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Beers, like animals, can be endangered species: some can even go extinct.
Nobody’s seen West Country White Ale in the wild for more than 125 years.
Camra, ...
Mild Magic – the last post
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So, farewell then, Mild Magic 2012. Since the 14th of April I’ve drunk – or
at least asked for – mild in 49 different pubs, almost all of which had
someone...
SIBA North Council Rep
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Bit of a canvassing post here. I'd write more, but I've got work to do.
There is a space on the SIBA council for a North region representative.
You may hav...
Dave Wickett, Beer Legend, RIP
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Dave Wickett died. Bastard cancer.
This award-winning, iconic Sheffield pub would not have existed without
Wickett
Wickett gave cancer more than it bargain...
EBBF 2012 - Live Beer Blogging
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I'm live-blogging from the European Beer Bloggers Conferrence - 10 beers in
50 minutes. IT'S GRIPPED, IT'S SORTED, *LET'S LIVE BLOG*!
*
Slaters Top Totty* ...
The Session #64: Woohoo! A return to style
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Carla Companion, the Beer Babe, has picked the topic for The Session #64
and it is Pale Ale. Find two of them, drink them, write about them. It’s
that simp...
Citra Calvados Tripel Tasting
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[image: A tulip of dry hopped funky tripel.]
I know I’ve said it before, but it is a tragedy that more breweries don’t
dry hop their sour beers. It doesn’t...
Redefining Local In A New Era Of Craft Beer…
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Support Your Local Brewery. Drink Local, Think Global. For more than a
decade, brewers have doled out countless bumper stickers, coasters, and
stickers wit...
Braukunst Live! 2012 - The Master Classes
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The inaugural Braukunst Live! 2012 festival opened it's doors on Friday the
20th of April. The brainchild of Frank Böer, who is responsible for the
siste...
XP abschließend beurteilt
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So, mittlerweile ist die letzte Flasche vom Younger XP-Nachbrau meine Kehle
hinuntergeflossen. Zu meinem Bedauern, da das Bier sehr lecker war. Bei der
V...
Happy Friday the 13th!
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That’s my kitty Cherry, in whole-hog freak out mode! Happy Friday th 13th,
dear reader. We have I think 3 Friday the 13ths this year– lucky indeed!
To c...
Former Pubs
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There are many posts to be written here about the former pubs of London,
and in the fullness of time (which has already been very accommodating) I
hope to ...
Bamberg Weekend
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These are some random pictures from over the weekend. Posting pictures of
every Schlenkerla, Spezial or Mahrs beer I drank would boring, cruel -- or
both.
...
My very own beer, even if I can't drink it!
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It is with immense joy that I announce that I am expecting my first baby,
due on the 8th September 2012. We and the hubby really happy and thank you
all fo...
Again, Apfelwein
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Of course I had to make it. Apfelwein. Apple juice + (optional) corn sugar
+ yeast = alcohol. Takes like five minutes to make, five weeks to ferment,
and a...
It’s been Epic!
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It’s official. I have just one week left with Epic Brewing Company before
moving on to a Head Brewer role at a new brewpub in Hamilton. Changing jobs
is al...
L'Aveu.
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*Carlsberg Suisse*, enfin, *Feldschlösschen*, viennent de laisser passer un
aveu majeur, dont je me demande s'ils ont bien saisi la portée...
Dans un comm...
More on the origin of Lager
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Czech this time. A lovely bit of ‘proper’ research done by someone who
speaks the language, Evan Rail in Prague. And a summary and further comment
by Marty...
A preview of May’s guest beers…
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Our first beer fest might be over, but we’ve a cellar full of great ales
that will be making an appearance in May. Tomorrow we’ll be kicking off the
week w...
Fantastic Frankfurt Webcam
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I’ve stumbled upon such a nice and simple live webcam of Frankfurt am Main
skyline. It updates the pic by reload once a minute or so. This is how
Frankfurt...
3 comments:
Splendid. Don't forget to link to the .com version of Amazon as well, for the non-UK readers (we can't buy Kindle books from Amazon.co.uk): http://www.amazon.com/Porter-Mega-Book-Series-ebook/dp/B007GLY84U/
Some criticism: although it's converted to the Kindle mobi format, it doesn't quite take advantage of the format. For one, the table of contents is very ugly (broken lines from simply converting the paper book's lay-out), listing page numbers that are of course irrelevant to an ebook. It still works, so I can use it to jump to whichever chapter I choose. However, the chapters themselves don't work, so I can't jump from chapter to chapter by sliding up or down on the Kindle Touch.
At least one table is not a table but a mess of almost unreadable numbers (Whitbread Porter and Stout grists 1805 1844). Make that two (Output of the largest London breweries 1750 - 1815 as well). Notes look like part of the body text. Bullet points appear as some other weird unicode signs.
The text itself is readable enough, although some of it seems more appropriate for the blog format.
please get Lexie to do Trips West as I'm going to be in Cologne and Duesseldorf soon.
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