Jiminy Panoz

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 can…

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…

Kindle in Motion: you should pay attention to the boring parts

A CSS API for eBooks

Or how I’m just trying to avoid using the term “micro format” as people don’t want to hear about this dirty word while it…