Just Finished WoT iPhone Audio Book Project

[bigfan]

Hi All,

 

I have been a lurker at DM for years.  I started coming here to get my WoT news fix.  Later I came to read RJ’s blog.  Anyway, I figured it was time for me to say hello.

 

Since lately I haven't had enough time to read print books, I have been listening to audio books instead.  One of the things that I missed while listening to the WoT audio books was the chapter icons.  Recently I found a program that would allow me to add chapter artwork to m4b files (ipod audio book format).  The iPhone and iPod Touch have great screens for displaying the artwork btw.

 

I cut my WoT books into chapters and then went in search of the chapter icons and book cover scans.  Long story short, I couldn’t find anything of decent quality on the net so I scanned my hard covers.  I cleaned them up as best I could and then made a background for the icons.  Here are a couple of samples what I ended up with:

 

Here is what it looks like on the iPhone (looks much better in person):

 

I scanned each of the chapter icons @ 300dpi.  I cleaned the up before I scaled them for the iPhone images so I have pretty good quality version of each icon in png format.  Here is an example:

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/7656/trollocdh9.png[/img]

 

I scanned the covers at 150dpi and cleaned them as best I could. I think they turned out pretty well.  Here is a scaled down sample:

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/9984/thedragonreborncovervu9.jpg[/img]

 

Sorry to be so long winded.  The reason I brought this up was to offer any one here copies of the cover scans and chapter icons.  You can download them from here (at least for the next couple of weeks):

-Book Covers can be found here. Use the download link at the top of the page.

-My iPhone versions of the chapter icons can be found here. Use the download link at the top of the page.

-Full size PNG versions of the chapter icons can be found here.

 

Is there some one here at DM that I should offer this stuff to?  There is a page here showing chapter icons that imho might benefit from an update.

http://www.dragonmount.com/Books/chapter_icons.php

[JenniferL]

That's pretty cool. If I had an iPhone, I'd totally use those. Would you mind if we hosted that for you?  Jason's in the middle of a movie shoot right now, but once I can get his attention again, I'd be happy to arrange it with him.

[bigfan]

Thanks ;D.

 

Sure you can host these files if you want.  To be honest, I was hoping someone here would make the offer.  I am sure other WoT audio book fans will appreciate the cover scans if not the chapter icons.

 

I will leave the files where they are until I here from you.

 

Thanks.

 

[bigfan]

I have scanned the new cover and chapter icon.  If anyone is interested, you can download all of the covers and chapter icons for the next couple of months from these links:

 

Book Covers - http://files.me.com/wschwister/vffqgv

PNG Chapter Icons - http://files.me.com/wschwister/p9mrsr

iPhone Chapter Icons - http://files.me.com/wschwister/w9o8xw

 

Maybe someone at Dragonmount can update this page:

http://www.dragonmount.com/Books/chapter_icons.php