Boing! Boing! points to Mike Brotherton releasing his scifi novel Star Dragon under a Creative Commons license. Brotherton has text, RTF and HTML versions of the novel on his web site.
For those, like me, using MobiPocket Reader on a PDA, I’ve created a MobiPocket version of Star Dragon. Update: This can now be downloaded from Mike Brotherton’s site. The PRC file is located here.
Note: I’ll soon be removing the MobiPocket version of the novel, as the webmaster for Mike Brotherton’s site is going to add it there.
I have added, however, the cleaned-up HTML version of the noel that I used to create the MobiPocket version, which should help others wanting to convert the novel to other formats.
This differs from the HTML version currently on Brotherton’s site in that,
- All of the non-breaking spaces have been removed
- All open paragraph tags now have accompanying closed paragraph tags at the end of each paragraph
- All of the HTML-encoded characters have been replaced with straight ASCII versions — i.e., I replaced all the HTML encoded single quotes with actual single quotes
- Chapter and other headings are now center-aligned paragraphs and with opening and closing bold tags
You can download the cleaned-up version here.