07-30-2008, 07:10 PM | #1 |
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Gutenberg and Epub
I'm a big fan of Gutenberg but I always have to convert their books into lrf before I can read them on my Reader. (Reading the pure text or html books on the reader doesn't work that well I've found).
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calibre will be able to convert the output of gutenmark into epub soon.
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I can't think of any particular reason what they should start doing ePub versions. They already do HTML versions of pretty much all the books they are creating today, and that's just as "standard" (if not more so) as ePub.
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ePub may be a dandy intermediate format, to use as a base for conversion to something else you will actually read. If the tools to do it are freely available, and the process can be largely automated, I don't see a particular reason why they shoudn't do ePub, likely as part of the same workflow that creates the HTML. Munseys is in the process of adding ePub versions of the titles it carries. The site owner is apparently using Daisy Pipeline to do the job, but doing conversions locally and uploading, since Daisy is Java based, and there are issues getting it to work under Linux on the host. ______ Dennis |
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Maybe I'm doing something wrong but html isn't that easy to read on my reader.
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Have you tried 1) using Calibre, 2) BookDesigner, or 3) opening the HTML in MS Word or Open Word and saving as RTF which the reader can read?
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I can do all those things but wouldn't it be much easier if you could download it straight from Gutenberg in an open ebook standard like epub.
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The Bookglutton.com converted epub files don't work with the PRS-505. I will try the Feedbooks site soon.
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