Jiminy Panoz

Internationalization and ebooks

Internationalization is fascinating: the ebook case

On Readium CSS and digital reading

If you haven’t seen anything new from me on Medium lately, it’s because I’ve been leading the…

What Kindle does behind the scenes

Let’s talk about Kindle’s “Enhanced Typography.”

Enhanced Typography is an alias for a new architecture but Kindle developers are so ashamed, they don’t want you to know.

Smart Cookbooks

Recipe for smartbooks

This thinking all started with a BBC article telling non-fiction was up in Great…

ebook Design is how it works

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like, design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs

Disclaimer, I’ve seen that ebooks’ CSS has become a trendy topic again and I’m kinda pissed reading…

A few grideas

Because, well, ebook pagination has been fake news from the start.

What if…

display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr);
grid-template-areas:
    "figure figure"
    "page-left page-right";

Thanks ebookcraft

Spoiler: to some extent, this is a love letter to the people organizing and attending ebookcraft.

The Blitz’ introductory tutorial

Typeset your eBooks with ease

Why the web should take a look at eBooks

An english translation of a (loose) transcript of my Paris Web talk. Please take into account I am taking a trip down (my random access) memory lane.

Disclaimer: some pieces might be missing and that’s alright since human beings…

Let’s talk about eBook performance

If you’re not an eBook producer, this article probably won’t interest you.

As a matter of fact, even if you are, chances are you’ve already experienced painful performance but it’s not something we’re used to speak about so there’s little…