Signing ebooks

What do you think of personally signed ebooks?

  • Great idea

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  • Only paper for me

    Votes: 4 66.7%

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nibl

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I have written an application allowing authors to sign ebooks. A new personalised ebook is created, in either MobiPocket or EPUB format, each time with the inscription on the title page. I'm looking for authors to try it out. (Yes, I know about KindleGraph, this is a different approach).

Here it is in Kindle Previewer:



More info in this guest post including images and a video. If you are interested in trying this out, contact me via the forum, or the post above. My email address is also in the video.

Marcus

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AlishaS

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I think this could be a neat idea and will follow your progress. I have a novel coming out soon, both in print and e-book. Though, I have a Wacom tablet, and I suck and the actual writing part with it. So I'd probably be more prone to scanning in my actual signature from a piece of paper.

Either way, it's neat.
 

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The limit with Kindlegraph is the 'signing' is in fake handwriting font. I'd like to be able to use a touchscreen device to actually sign the page.
 

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@AlishaS, email me if you want to try out the demo. It works with a tablet or scanner. There's also an online writing pad to sign directly in the browser.


@veinglory, you can use an iPad with a stylus to sign (Wacom has one for ~$25). Upload image, or try the online writing pad and sign in the browser.
 
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Though, I have a Wacom tablet, and I suck and the actual writing part with it. So I'd probably be more prone to scanning in my actual signature from a piece of paper.


I forgot to mention, you need to use the correct paint program. I used Inkscape and it's perfect, better than scanned paper results! Inkscape is a free Vector drawing program. Use Inkscape's calligraphy tool. ArtRage is also excellent with the Wacom tablet, had a version included with my Bamboo Pen. Hand-drawn lines are completely smooth.
 
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