3.0 Document Task Directions

Transform a text file into a fully formatted, publication ready book

Task

Your task is to transform, through skillful formatting, a basic text version of your assigned book into one created to be capable of being read on an e-reader.

Retrieve the plain text version of the e-book from the Project Gutenberg site.

If you were assigned the book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, you would navigate to its Gutenberg location and download the plain text version, in UTF-8 format, with no compression and a size of 212 KB, from the main site. Save the document on your client as a .txt file. Once you have the document on your client, open it in the program of your choice and save it in the program's file extension, so you can take advantage of some of the specific tools available in the program.

Condition

Since the world is changing and e-books are becoming a reality, prepare this task for a client who wants a product ready for loading onto an e-book reader, perhaps something akin to a Kindle. That means the notional paper size to be used is six inches wide by nine inches tall. Of course, you will want to include some whitespace margins around the text. If you wish to format your book for your e-reader, you may make the notional paper size fit your particular version. For example, one that has a 4 by 6 inch screen space.

Everything on the grade sheet will be analogous to something we will have done in class or is shown in a video.