Format for e-readers?

[webmaven]

An EPUB (or MOBI, or AZW3) format version of the book would be very much appreciated.

[jeffgerickson]

You can download EPUB and MOBI versions from the Internet Archive page. However, these are auto-generated from the PDF, so I can't vouch for their quality. (Never mind. The Internet Archive's EPUB and MOBI conversions are utterly broken, to the point that I really need to remove them from the book's Internet Archive page if I can.)

I do not plan to produce a native EPUB/MOBI/HTML version that will allow you to freely reflow text, for example, by changing fonts or font sizes or margins. That would require significant rewriting, especially to deal with the dozens of floating figures (including most of the pseudocode), displayed equations, (recursive) footnotes, occasional references to page numbers, and various bits of TeX HaXing. (And there's Unicode everywhere, which EPUB/MOBI readers have a reputation for not supporting well.) The only way to write reflowable text is to design it that way from the ground up.

On the other hand, most EPUB/MOBI readers can handle correctly produced PDF files, or at least EPUB/MOBI files that are correctly generated from PDF files. (Check out with the Kindle version of Dasgupta-Papadimitriou-Vazirani, which is clearly a PDF conversion.)

[jeffgerickson]

It looks like the only way to keep the Internet Archive from offering garbage e-reader versions is to produce my own. Sigh.

[webmaven]

What is the source format you use? If you can provide that, an export to EPUB et. al would likely be better than converting a PDF.

[jeffgerickson]

Everything is written in LaTeX, with figures imported as PDF files. Once I have a stable printed version, I'll try converting everything via tex4ebook / htlatex. But given the amount of math in the book, and the complete lack of support for MathML in epub/mobi, I'm not optimistic about the quality of the result.

[webmaven]

Hope springs eternal.