At the moment some of us are starting to post PRC/MOBI format books in this forum that are the same titles as we have already posted in the BBeB/LFR section. Hopefully (if we can find all of our source files) the two will contain the same titles.

My purpose in starting this thread is to solicit from the PRC/MOBI users what books they want converted first. I will do my best as time permits (and I can find the source files) to post those titles first.

As I post new books, I will post them to both forums.

I would like to see Wallace, Edgar: Mr J.G. Reeder Omnibus (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10844). So far as I know, this is the only single volume collection of all Wallace's books and short stories featuring "Mr. J.G. Reeder".

Can we have rules for PRC/MOBI books? I would prefer to have the books only in default compression (standard Palm compression). The Mobipocket high compression is a proprietary format. The Palm compression is not very efficient, but alternative reader programs (namely FBReader) can handle such PRC/MOBI books.

Which setting should one use in "Book Designer" to create such books, Robert? There are a number of "device" options for Mobipocket output - do they use different compressions?

I am not sure. I prefer the commandline tool mobigen.exe from Mobipocket. There it is a commandline option.

I currently improve the german translation of the Mobipocket Reader.

Compression
Compress eBook file
No compression
Standard compression
High compression

There must be a combobox somewhere in the options. "Standard compression" is the Palm compression and "High compression" the proprietary Mobipocket compression.
From the commandline help of mobigen.exe it is obvious that it is just a variation of the Huffman compression though.

Can we have rules for PRC/MOBI books? I would prefer to have the books only in default compression (standard Palm compression). The Mobipocket high compression is a proprietary format. The Palm compression is not very efficient, but alternative reader programs (namely FBReader) can handle such PRC/MOBI books.
What I can do is try a few different formats out of Book Designer and you can see what you think works best. I'll do this on Monday and PM you the link to let you know where the attachment is so you can test them all out and tell us what to do. Thanks!

I've put together the same book using all the options Book Designer allows for Palm/MobiPocket and FictionBook. Please tlel me what works best overall or do we need a section for FictionBook?

Jon

My list:
Of Time and the River and You Can't Go Home Again (Thomas Wolfe)
Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves (virginia Woolf)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove (Marcel Proust)
Don Quixote Pt.1 (Cervantes)
This is my first post. I have been reading your forum for some 10 or 11 months. Even though it is frequently too technical for me, I have learned much and I thank you all.

I've put together the same book using all the options Book Designer allows for Palm/MobiPocket and FictionBook. Please tlel me what works best overall or do we need a section for FictionBook? I tried these with FBReader under Windows and Linux and with the Windows MobiPocket Reader. Both FBReader and MobiPocket Reader can read the "Mobipocket" version. They display the images but they do not produce a TOC (table of contents) that shows up under the Contents tab, i.e. this is missing from the document. It is possible to navigate by going to the first page and then clicking on the embedded TOC, but this isn't quite a convenient as a formal TOC. Both also read the "Simple prc" version, which only has text and has no navigable TOC. This is actually a PalmDoc (AportisDoc) file. These are the only files readable by MobiPocket, but FBReader also reads the FB2 version. The only advantage of this version is that it does have a formal TOC (it also has enough metadata to be added automatically to FBReader's library view). The "Palm Reader" versions (PeanutPress format) are not readable by either reader.

It would be nice if the "MobiPocket" version provided a formal TOC, but this presumably needs an upgrade to Book Designer. The only other problem I see with this version is that FBReader does not detect that it is encoded using Windows-1252, and assumes it is using ISO-8859-1 by default. The encoding can be manually set using FBReader, and it isn't a problem with MobiPocket Reader. A quick way to check the encoding is to look at the double quotes in Chapter 2, which were not being displayed by default under FBReader.

An example of a complete MobiPocket document is Ring Of Fire (http://www.webscription.net/p-352-ring-of-fire.aspx) from Baen's free library. Under the "Contents" tab in this case, MobiPocket Reader includes entries for the TOC, the cover, the first page, and e-book info.

So given what I've posted, what would be the best file types from Book Designer to post for Mobipocket and FBReader? What I've posted seems to be the best we can do at the moment.

This is my first post. I have been reading your forum for some 10 or 11 months. Even though it is frequently too technical for me, I have learned much and I thank you all.

Welcome to MobileRead, CharlieBird! Glad you came into the light. :nice:

So given what I've posted, what would be the best file types from Book Designer to post for Mobipocket and FBReader? What I've posted seems to be the best we can do at the moment. The best for MobiPocket is the "Mobipocket" version. The best for FBReader is the FB2 version. A good MobiPocket version would be essentially equal in capability to the FB2 version, but Book Designer apparently provides better support for FB2 than MobiPocket.

I'm not sure which other readers support the FB2 format, and whether it is worth producing a FB2 version just for FBReader. The existing MobiPocket version may be "good enough" for both MobiPocket Reader and FBReader.

As long as Fictiobook can read the MobiPocket version, I think that would be best. One copy and both programs can read it. All we need do is make sure each book has an internal ToC since the MobiPocet converter doesn't create an external one like it does for BBeB (LRF) and FB2.

I could really use a nicely formatted version of the complete libretti of Gilbert & Sullivan. The Project Gutenberg download is one big text file and therefore next to useless for comic opera lovers. I could use something with a table of contents, italics, proper indenting etc ... Oh dear - the more I think about it, the more work it is... darn ...

I could really use a nicely formatted version of the complete libretti of Gilbert & Sullivan. The Project Gutenberg download is one big text file and therefore next to useless for comic opera lovers. I could use something with a table of contents, italics, proper indenting etc ... Oh dear - the more I think about it, the more work it is... darn ...

Could I help?

Do you mean this one: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/cpogs10.txt

Could I help?

Do you mean this one: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/cpogs10.txt


Yup, that's the one...

I've even considered looking into buying a nice version of this from Fictionwise or Mobipocket, but I really can't bring myself to pay for a public domain title - even if it's nicely formatted and laid out....

I've even considered looking into buying a nice version of this from Fictionwise or Mobipocket, but I really can't bring myself to pay for a public domain title - even if it's nicely formatted and laid out....

So what are you saying? That you're happy for us to spend hours creating nice versions of these books for you to download free of charge, but you're unwilling to pay for the results of such labour?

Presumably, by extension, you'd also never pay for printed versions of out-of-copyright authors, either?

Sorry - I don't mean to be rude, but those of us who create books put a great deal of time and effort into it, and it would be nice to think that all that work is perceived as having at least some value.

Why not have a go at creating a nice Mobi version of the book you mentioned yourself, using "Book Designer"? Might give you an appreciation of how much work we put into creating all these book that are available for download :).

Personally I'd be more than happy to pay for a nice version of an out-of-copyright book, because I know just how much effort it takes to change the raw text PG original into a nice book.

Yup, that's the one...

I've even considered looking into buying a nice version of this from Fictionwise or Mobipocket, but I really can't bring myself to pay for a public domain title - even if it's nicely formatted and laid out....
I have a feeling you will either need to purchase the printed edition, or do the conversion yourself. That one would be a tough conversion. I did have a look and it's going to be not easy to do. If there was an HTML version, then maybe it would not be as hard to deal with.

So what are you saying? That you're happy for us to spend hours creating nice versions of these books for you to download free of charge, but you're unwilling to pay for the results of such labour?

Nope. The question was, what titles would people like to see available, and that's the question I answered. If you would rather sell the e-book editions that you create, then don't make them available for free. I'm not entirely clear on why I'm being yelled at here. Somebody asked, I answered.

Presumably, by extension, you'd also never pay for printed versions of out-of-copyright authors, either?

Not anymore, no. That's the whole point of out-of-copyright and e-books and Project Gutenberg.

Sorry - I don't mean to be rude, but those of us who create books put a great deal of time and effort into it, and it would be nice to think that all that work is perceived as having at least some value.

In no way did I mean to diminish the work and time you put in creating these.
I just don't feel like paying any kind of professional publisher for an out-of-copyright work, no matter how nicely it's put together. A private person, somebody who does it on the side, even as a hobby - different matter altogether. There could conceivably be donations, a Paypal reimbursement scheme of sorts - sure, why not. I'm not at all opposed to that.

Why not have a go at creating a nice Mobi version of the book you mentioned yourself, using "Book Designer"? Might give you an appreciation of how much work we put into creating all these book that are available for download :).

I would, if my precious spare time wasn't totally taken up with trying to put together a complete volume of Lovecraft which, by the way, I would love to upload once it's done, were it not for the fact that I'm mightily confused about his copyright status in the US. And that's just without the illustrations.

Hope this clears thing up.

I did have a look and it's going to be not easy to do. If there was an HTML version, then maybe it would not be as hard to deal with.

Oh, I know - I looked into it before I asked if somebody else felt like doing it.
I converted it from A to B to C and back ... looked awful and useless every time.
I was kinda hoping somebody you knew a fast and efficient way to do it that I wasn't aware of.

BUt as far as I can see now, the best way to do it would be to edit and re-format it as an RTF or DOC file, page by page - in which case you might want to start thinking about including Gilbert's illustrations. Then put in bookmarks and TOC. But like I said in another post, I just don't have the time right now. Sadly.

If nobody has done one by the time I get around to it and if there's interest, I will gladly give it a shot myself.

If anyone wants any of my Reader books in MobiPocket format, just say and I'll happily do the conversion. Genuine requests, please, rather than "convert everything" :).

If anyone wants any of my Reader books in MobiPocket format, just say and I'll happily do the conversion. Genuine requests, please, rather than "convert everything" :).
Why not convert it all? It's not that hard to do really. Just skip any not made using Book Designer.

I will do them all, over time, but I'm not going to do them all in one go :). Just wanted to do any "requests" first.

I will do them all, over time, but I'm not going to do them all in one go :). Just wanted to do any "requests" first.
Like Harry will do, I plan to do all that were done in BookDesigner; but over time. Requests will be done first.

I shall also be doing all I have done in Book Designer. Any new books I post that are done with BD will be posted in both formats. But, the html2lrf books, are a no go unless someone can come up with an LRS to Mobi converter.

Hi to all, I'm kind of new here. I've discovered this forum because of the Edgar Wallace titles selection, which I collect for many years now.
Any chances of uploading more of his books? Specificaly, I was looking for The Big Foot (1927), The Strange Countess (1925), The Avenger (1926), The Day of Uniting (1926) and The Three Oak Mystery (1924) , but any addition would be great.

Thank you in advance.

Hi to all, I'm kind of new here. I've discovered this forum because of the Edgar Wallace titles selection, which I collect for many years now.
Any chances of uploading more of his books? Specificaly, I was looking for The Big Foot (1927), The Strange Countess (1925), The Avenger (1926), The Day of Uniting (1926) and The Three Oak Mystery (1924) , but any addition would be great.

Thank you in advance.
Welcome to MobileRead.

if you can find use freely available public domain sources for these books, we'll be happy to get them converted for you. I looked on PG and only three titles are available.

Hi to all, I'm kind of new here. I've discovered this forum because of the Edgar Wallace titles selection, which I collect for many years now.
Any chances of uploading more of his books? Specificaly, I was looking for The Big Foot (1927), The Strange Countess (1925), The Avenger (1926), The Day of Uniting (1926) and The Three Oak Mystery (1924) , but any addition would be great.

Thank you in advance.The Avenger, at least, is available in text format here: http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html, as are an assortment of other Edgar Wallace texts. It appears more are being added.

Wallace is public domain in Australia.
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Dennis

Hello. May I humbly make a request? I'd love to read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and War And Peace on my Cybook.

-Wayne

You can go ahead and do so. They are both available from http://www.manybooks.net

if i were to convert the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy to the prc format in high compression, and post it here, is that ok?

if i were to convert the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy to the prc format in high compression, and post it here, is that ok?

If you refere to Douglas Adams book and you are Douglas Adams and you didnt sell the exclusive publishing rights, then be oour guest.

Otherwise it would be a violation of copyright law.

But you can get it here:
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/BookDetails.asp?BookID=71668

Or at most other mobipocket retailers.

Hi to all, I'm kind of new here. I've discovered this forum because of the Edgar Wallace titles selection, which I collect for many years now.
Any chances of uploading more of his books? Specificaly, I was looking for The Big Foot (1927), The Strange Countess (1925), The Avenger (1926), The Day of Uniting (1926) and The Three Oak Mystery (1924) , but any addition would be great.

Thank you in advance.

The Avenger: http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/view_book/1809

Hello. May I humbly make a request? I'd love to read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and War And Peace on my Cybook.

-Wayne

Anna Karenina: http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/view_book/1487

War and Peace: http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/view_book/83

if i were to convert the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy to the prc format in high compression, and post it here, is that ok?

Don't be an idiot. :(

Don't be an idiot. :(

That's rather harsh imo - they only asked a question after all (rather thoughtful it seemed to me) :(

In http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17938 you wrote:

" You are welcome to disagree with someone's viewpoint, but calling someone an "idiot" is NOT ACCEPTABLE."

I didn't call him an idiot. I told him not to be one. Someone really should NOT need to ask if it's "OK" to post a commercial book to this site, and it's pretty bloody obvious that HHG is a copyrighted work.

MobiPocket is a strictly "legit" site.

I think a lot of people might assume copyright expires on death - it doesn't seem an idiotic notion on the face of it.

But if someone's not sure, the correct thing is to ask -which they did.
I don't think there was anything in the original post, or their previous posts, to indicate the poster deserved censuring.

Even if they did deserve rebuking; you rightly wrote on a previous occasion:
"Please make your points in a polite manner."

Forgive me if I get a little "hot under the collar" when someone wants to do something that would INSTANTLY get this site shut down. I care a great deal about MobileRead, and do not want to see that happen to it. The "Posting Guidelines" make it absolutely clear what is and is not acceptable to upload here.

Jeez, how hard is it to say "Sorry, I shouldn't have said it that way. You're right, we don't call each other idiots here."

How about a .mobi Poe omnibus? There's a nice five volume collection at PG.

May I add "Beowulf" - assuming I eventually get a Gen3 ( of course ) .......

Beowulf is now uploaded in two different translations.

Beowulf is now uploaded in two different translations.

Thank you milady ....:thanks:

a very odd request, i suppose.. but has anyone seen an english translation of the Roman de la Rose around?

I'd love to read some more by David Lindsay writer of The Voyage to Arcturus. I know we have The Haunted Woman on the site but there are other works of his out there Sphnix, The Devil's Tor I would be so curious to read. Can't even find them in DT format. Thanks again to all the uploaders for their work.

Unfortunately, only the Voyage to Arcturus and The Haunted Woman are freely available online. The former is at Project Gutenberg and the latter at Project Gutenberg Australia. Dr Drib has done Sony Reader versions of both.

a very odd request, i suppose.. but has anyone seen an english translation of the Roman de la Rose around?

Translations

* Dahlberg, Charles, trans. The Romance of the Rose. Third edition. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1995.Modern English translation.
* Kaluza, Max, ed. The Romaunt of the Rose. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967. French-Middle English parallel text.
* Sutherland, Ronald, ed. The Romaunt of the Rose and Le Roman de la Rose. Berkeley: U of California P, 1968. More recent French-Middle English parallel text.


Not yet rightsfree I guess.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=The+Romance+of+the+Rose&x=0&y=0
(not digital)

Look also there for "The Romaunt of the Rose"

Translations

* Dahlberg, Charles, trans. The Romance of the Rose. Third edition. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1995.Modern English translation.
* Kaluza, Max, ed. The Romaunt of the Rose. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967. French-Middle English parallel text.
* Sutherland, Ronald, ed. The Romaunt of the Rose and Le Roman de la Rose. Berkeley: U of California P, 1968. More recent French-Middle English parallel text.


Not yet rightsfree I guess.

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=The+Romance+of+the+Rose&x=0&y=0
(not digital)

Look also there for "The Romaunt of the Rose"

Look also here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=NFB-NgrsYqcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=romance+of+the+rose&hl=nl&sig=ZxrD7i6uv0WqvzGIKga_ZfsBu1o#PPR10,M1

The Chaucer translation (Romaunt of the Rose) is available as a mobipocket ebook for sale here:
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/eBookDetails.asp?BookID=78480

I'm looking for an e-book copy of Once an eagle by Anton Meyers. If anyone could point me in the right direction it would be appreciated. :thanks:





zuul

It's by Anton Myrer, actually. Unfortunately, I can't find an ebook version.

can anybody help me to find a prc version of relativity theory books?
Regards

Hello....newbie here with a new Cybook and loving it. I would like to request "The Monastary" and " The Abbott" by Sir Walter Scott. And grateful thanks to all those who are taking the time to develop these books!!!

can anybody help me to find a prc version of relativity theory books?
Regards

Albert Einstein, "Relativity: The Special and General Theory"

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5001

Easy to convert to PRC using MobiPocket Creator.

It is converted to the proper format.
thanks Harry

It would be nice if you were to upload it here for other people to enjoy.

By my heart dear Harry. Honestly I prefer PDF format so I converted it to a PDF file for iLiad. Here you are:

13331

Regards and thanks again

Ah, in that case, thanks but no thanks :).

Remember I am new, and don't completely understand all the logistics involved here. I am realizing all the work you all do, and appreciate it...my question is this. I have found two Agatha Christie books out there. Are there any more available or are her books still under copyright? She is one of my favorite authors. How about Dashneil Hammett, or Mickey Spillane, or Raymond Chandler? To keep from asking dumb questions in the future, if I am interested in particular authors, how would I find out if their works are still under copyright? Thanks for your time.........Donna :smack:

Any book published in the US prior to 1923 is in the public domain in the US, so that's just the two Agatha Christie's that you've found.

In most of the rest of the world, books enter the public domain at the start of the year following either the 50th or the 70th anniversary of the author's death. Agatha Christie died in 1976, so the rest of her books won't enter the public domain in "life + 50" countries until 2027, and in "life + 70" countries until 2047. I'll leave you to check the other authors.

Over 50 of Agatha Christie's books are, however, available as very reasonably-priced eBooks at any decent eBook store - eg FictionWise.

I was wondering what the formula was. Clear, understandable answer.
:thanks:

I'd like to have HarryT (in all his spare time -- snork) do the D'Artagnan Romances in Mobi some time. I keep seeing it in the lrf format and try to get it on my Kindle with no luck. So:

pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease

I'm willing to debase myself further if necessary. 8?)

On the list to be re-done for both Sony and Mobi.

On the list to be re-done for both Sony and Mobi.
You need me to come over to your house and wash dishes while you're concentrating on this, the most important of all tasks?:D

you can come over and wash my dishes whenever you want, pshrynk. i hate washing dishes. i'll read out loud to you while you wash, if you like. i'll even let you choose the book.

you can come over and wash my dishes whenever you want, pshrynk. i hate washing dishes. i'll read out loud to you while you wash, if you like. i'll even let you choose the book.
Yes, but there is no Three Musketeers for my Kindle at the end of the washing up!:smack:

Actually, I could use someone here to do the laundry. I do not like folding and putting away the clothes.

Actually, I could use someone here to do the laundry. I do not like folding and putting away the clothes.
Sorry, Wolf. It's not you. Really.

I'd just rather hang out in ZP's apartment being read to as I do her dishes.

It's a really scary thing that I'd rather hang out with HarryT, doing his dishes while he does the D'Artagnan books.:o

Ladies and gentleman - the "lounge" is the appropriate place for off-topic discussions. Please keep this thread for what the title says - requests for Mobi books.

Thank you.

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