This exemplary book on Aberdeenshire's Recumbent Stone Circles has been converted and re-released as an Apple ebook. It costs £9.99 from the Apple iTunes store.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/great-crowns-of-stone/id836543888?mt=11
Adam Welfare writes: The iBook combines the printed volume with the second part which was issued as a pdf into a 608 page whole [Phew! - MegP Ed]. So this is closer to how the work was originally conceived before the problem of affordability was addressed, which led to the printed book having to be reduced in size. So it's nice to have it in a reunited form and it proved more challenging than anticipated to convert it to an ebook.
Well worth it of course as there are some positive advantages to the digital format: firstly, it allowed me to address some minor errors - so it represents a 'corrected' edition; and the second benefit is that you are now able to search the contents via the hotlinks provided, or indeed, by any word you enter into the search box.
If a hotlink in the text is clicked/touched on, you are taken immediately to the site's detailed entry in the gazetteer or appendix; and once there, if the heading in bold is clicked, you are sent over to the Canmore web resource, where more pics and further info may be found.
Some of this is new stuff: there is, for instance, a more complete plan of Loanhead of Daviot, in as much as this now shows all the kerbstones that were introduced to the north side of the cairn when the site was restored for display. At the time of the original survey, I had no real means of distinguishing these from the originals excavated by Kilbride-Jones so I had to leave them out.
Once mastered, the iBook is fun to use and its great to be able to bounce about the book, as well as in and out of Canmore.
The original printed volume is out of print and very expensive, so the digital version makes the work available again to the enthusiast, student, or indeed anyone else possessing an Apple device, at a fraction of the original cost; and that can only be good.
Available on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac.
Print Length: 600 Pages
Requirements: To view this book, you must have an iOS device with iBooks 1.2 or later and iOS 4.2 or later, or a Mac with iBooks 1.0 or later and OS X 10.9 or later.
Download link to Great Crowns of Stone ebook available only on iTunes.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/great-crowns-of-stone/id836543888?mt=11
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