The Kindle Text Problem - Computerphile

Why is it that PDFs look great and yet e-books can look ropey? - Dr Steve Bagley turns Brady into a computer to find out.EXTRA BITS: http://youtu.be/CdbvgRqyC-0 Floating Point Numbers: http://youtu.be/PZRI1IfStY0EXTRA BITS - More on Printing and Typesetting History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdModNEK_1U Shellshock Code & the Bash Bug: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyldPMn95kk nb: the percentage in an e-reader tends to refer to how much book you have left to go, not the state of the battery charge! -Seanhttp://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputerComputerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices