Aga likes hiking trips. My kindle DX, awesome though it is, is too heavy and bulky for light-weight travel. So, for our recent visit to the Canary islands (perhaps see a blogpost in the near future), I bought a new reader, the Sony PRS-T1. Extremely lightweight, as it happens (not the reason I bought it — it was the only model the store had that I found acceptable :)
But then, in preparing our trip, Aga found an online hiking guide to La Palma. It is fantastic! It has a lot of info you want when tracking… so how to take that?
I figured to try and convert it into an ebook and take it. Tried, but miserably failed. There was some flash going on on the pages, which crashed the ebook. So, we went without. But ever since then, the idea of having the hiking guide there caught me, and now I’m in the grips of it. While most of it is rather straightforward (basically, cleaning up the HTML and removing cruft), it is quite a bit of work. Or at least, it is the way I’m doing it :)
Still, the project is progressing slowly. Moreover, I’m taking the opportunity to add some notes — e.g. to underline the error found in some maps (they list a mountain hut where there is none, not even a place to get water). Fun!
Will keep you up to date.
PS: Since I’m not looking to infringe upon someone’s copy right, I’ll probably not distribute it publicly.