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Švejk [shvāke] Svejk

This blog is dedicated to the title character of The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War and his creator, Jaroslav Hašek.

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Saturday, January 08, 2011

KINDLE VERSIONS

With the growing number of people communicating via hand-held computers, a.k.a. smart phones, the time to make the new translation available in the Kindle format has come. I started converting Book One back when Kindle titles being offered were approaching the number 2,000. Because I only dabble in IT due to necessity and was still working on the rest of the translation I had a very limited amount of time and patience to devote to learning how to produce a Kindle version. The several attempts I made produced entirely unsatisfactory results. Therefore I abandoned the project for the time being. 

During my Christmas vacation I took another look and found the support and tools for people like me have improved. I gave it another try. The result? All three volumes of The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During The World War are now selling in Kindle store.

4 Comments:

Blogger jomar@honsi.org said...

Excellent! I don't have a Kindle, but this could help the great novel reach more people.

2:51 PM  
Blogger Charles said...

I got a kindle for Christmas and it has rekindled my appetite for books. I have the old translation of s'vejk and because yours is on kindle, I will buy it. I am reading a sample now.

10:31 AM  
Blogger Zenny K. Sadlon said...

Excellent. Let us know what you think of the new translation. :-)

8:27 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi,

I noticed that the revision of the Kindle edition of Book One is 7/4/2012, but Book Two is 3/1/2011 and Book 3 & 4 is 3/4/2011.

Are books 2, 3, 4 waiting to be revised later this year as well? Or are they fine?

3:43 AM  

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