Someone already mentioned LaTeX tools on here one can convert ghostscript format to pdf form e.g. the 'ps2pdf' command etc... Being physicists and dealing with complicated mathematical equations one can't beat *nix (NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenSolaris etc..) with LaTeX tools. I guess LaTeX tools...
DRM on adobe pdf has been cracked by someone called ILov eCabbages on the internet using a script to generate a key certificate with adobe digital editions etc.. He released two scripts that will do the job (both of them are needed) that can be found on bittorrent websites.
I'll just mention this because no one has mentioned it yet :
http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/user_manual/cli/ebook-convert.html
http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/
EPUB Input to PDF Output
FB2 Input to PDF Output
HTML Input to PDF Output
LIT Input to PDF Output
MOBI Input to PDF Output
ODT...
Actually, I just remembered that I also read "Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension" by Michio Kaku while still in Highschool in the 1990s. I don't remember it being very tehnical though. Seems like it is was not written for specialists...
Writing an expository book such as a science book without other book and periodical research/reference sources is stupid. So your suggestion is no good. That could be done writing a fictional book but fictional books are off topic here since they are not science books ! You fail ...
Oops, nevermind ! I think the Feynman lectures probably cannot be found in one book. I am probably wrong. Either 1-3 books or 1-4 books seems standard for this series. So I change my mind. Series are allowed but preferably if they can be sold all at once like the Feynman series in a single...
No sorry I test as an INTP on the Myers-Briggs test so I'm not so sure that would be a useful book for me on a desert island (even though this below is a humorous not entirely serious or not a serious description) :
In all seriousness though this a thought experiment so forget about your...
First let me apologize for taking so long to respond. The motherboard on my laptop computer blew and it was not economical to fix it so I finally got around to fixing an older computer that a relative had and upgrading it some (the relative gave it to me). Thank you the replies everyone while I...
Ok, this is my first post here. I looked around the forum and sub-forums real quick. I don't know where else to post this but if this is in the wrong sub-forum then the mods or admins should feel free to move it to another subforum :
Someone you know is going to be stuck on a desert island...