For those of you using MobiPocket or FBReader on whatever device you read ebooks, how do you think these books are doing? Do you have any complaints, anything you'd like us to do differently (if we can)? We'd like to hear your comments please. Thanks!

Jon

Jon,

On my HP iPAQ 4700 with Mobipocket, the books look great. :book2:

Jon,

On my HP iPAQ 4700 with Mobipocket, the books look great. :book2:
That is very good to know that what we are producing looks good. It would be a shame to produce MobiPocket books that turned out to be not good enough.

I have not yet downloaded any ebooks from here, but I do have a suggestion.

When you are editing an anthology, at the end of each story/section please include a link to the table of contents. This lets the reader jump around. Anthologies don't have to be read sequentially.

I have not yet downloaded any ebooks from here, but I do have a suggestion.

When you are editing an anthology, at the end of each story/section please include a link to the table of contents. This lets the reader jump around. Anthologies don't have to be read sequentially.
It would not be hard to have a "Return to Table of Contents" placed at the end of each story. But that is up to whomever is making the collection.

Most bookreaders have a "go to 1st page" shortcut of some kind. That should get you pretty close to the table of contents.

Most bookreaders have a "go to 1st page" shortcut of some kind. That should get you pretty close to the table of contents.

Well, yes, but that assumes that the TOC is near the front. Baen always puts it at the rear of the ebook.

Well, yes, but that assumes that the TOC is near the front. Baen always puts it at the rear of the ebook.

That's a silly place to put a TOC :).

You could always download the HTML version of the book from Baen, load it into Book Designer, shift the TOC to the front, and create your own Mobi version. That would take 2 minutes, tops.

That's a silly place to put a TOC :).

You could always download the HTML version of the book from Baen, load it into Book Designer, shift the TOC to the front, and create your own Mobi version. That would take 2 minutes, tops.

Yes, but I just wanted to share a design idea I had. I think it makes the books more readable.

Baen always places a link to the TOC on the first page so it is easy to reach. Usually a Mobipocket book also has a menu entry to reach the TOC and various other positions in the book. These are missing from the ebooks here.

Just wanted to thank you for your great work on all these books
I only have my Iliad a short time but much prefer to read the mobipocket format.
You are doing a great job
Thank you Katania

the mobi reader works perfectly on my nokia 9300, even better than adobe reader.

The books look wonderful and the selection is extremely good. Well I suppose the comment on the selection is subjective but it works for me. I find the selection broad and interesting.

Thank you all for the hard work and care that has gone into this. It is a treasure.

Hi, I'm Laurel, the owner of my first ever e-book reader, an Amazon Kindle. I really appreciate the books that you all make available here. What a great service. I'm finding that they are better formatted than many of the books from the Kindle store.

I've only run into one problem. I downloaded this book from Patricia. It works fine on the Mobipocket reader but will not come up on my Kindle. Patricia says that there is no copyright problem with the text or the pictures. She thought that one of you might be able to solve this puzzle for me.

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17891

I just checked the Kindle store and downloaded a sample of their version. The formatting is terrible. I really want to take advantage of the beautiful work that Patricia did. This is one of the books that I remember from my childhood. My father had a lovely edition of it and often would quote line after line. He's ninety-one now and can still quote from it.

Laurel
a new member

Hi, I'm Laurel, the owner of my first ever e-book reader, an Amazon Kindle. I really appreciate the books that you all make available here. What a great service. I'm finding that they are better formatted than many of the books from the Kindle store.

I've only run into one problem. I downloaded this book from Patricia. It works fine on the Mobipocket reader but will not come up on my Kindle. Patricia says that there is no copyright problem with the text or the pictures. She thought that one of you might be able to solve this puzzle for me.

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17891

I just checked the Kindle store and downloaded a sample of their version. The formatting is terrible. I really want to take advantage of the beautiful work that Patricia did. This is one of the books that I remember from my childhood. My father had a lovely edition of it and often would quote line after line. He's ninety-one now and can still quote from it.

Laurel
a new member
I just took a look at the thread for the book you want to read. I do not own a Kindle, but I do have a guess as to what might be an issue. It could be the accents in the filename and/or the metadata. Try renaming the file without the accents. If it still does not work, ask Patricia to make you a new version without the accents in the metadata and see if that works. Good luck and Welcome to MobileRead.

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It worked! Thank you, Jon. Patricia said someone here would know what to do.

Laurel

I just took a look at the thread for the book you want to read. I do not own a Kindle, but I do have a guess as to what might be an issue. It could be the accents in the filename and/or the metadata. Try renaming the file without the accents. If it still does not work, ask Patricia to make you a new version without the accents in the metadata and see if that works. Good luck and Welcome to MobileRead.

You are very welcome Laurel. I believe the ilIad also has the same problem with accents.

Best to avoid accents in the filename. Accents in the title are fine.

Thank you. I use a bookeen gen 3. Would it be possible to have page numbers. I have just bought from mobipocket book store, the Anatomist but it shows no page numbers.

What use would page numbers be on a device which allows you to select a limitless range of different fonts and font sizes? They would be different for everybody!

What use would page numbers be on a device which allows you to select a limitless range of different fonts and font sizes? They would be different for everybody!

They would be useful. I for exempla find it extremely irritating that I cannot se how long a book I start reading is. I use mostly the same font and size so it would be real useful to know the number of pages so i can se how long time it will take to read the book. And to see the page number when you read is good for pacing.

That's a restriction of the particular reading device, of course, rather than of the books themselves. Many other versions of the MobiPocket Reader (eg the Pocket PC and Windows versions) do display a current page number.

The Gen3 will show you the total number of pages in the book, but not the current page number.

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The Gen3 will show you the total number of pages in the book, but not the current page number.

But it is rather inconvenient to get this number. You have to select goto page and when you are there I have not found any way to get back to the book except to press the back button on the side.

I wonder how it would be to put some page number in the book. You could put it for example at each new chapter and you could calculate it by using the number of pages in the hardcover edition as a base. Hm, maybe i should add that as an option to the Mobiperl programs...

Many of the original PG books DO have page numbers in. I always remove them from the e-books that I create because I find that, for me personally, they detract from the reading experience.

They would be useful. I for exempla find it extremely irritating that I cannot se how long a book I start reading is. I use mostly the same font and size so it would be real useful to know the number of pages so i can se how long time it will take to read the book. And to see the page number when you read is good for pacing.
Since page numbers do seem rather important to you, why did you not go for a 505 that has page numbers?

Since page numbers do seem rather important to you, why did you not go for a 505 that has page numbers?

Isn't that a really stupid question? I do not live in the US so I do not like to buy thing that are not available. And I could not stand a reader without a dictionary.

What makes you believe that all wishes are equally important? Or are you payed by Sony to write this?

Since page numbers do seem rather important to you, why did you not go for a 505 that has page numbers?

that's a bit blunt. for some of us it makes sense to have pagenumbers and for some of us it doesn't.

and i agree with tompe here, living outside the usa leaves you with less options! apart from that sony doesn't support mobipocket as well.

You are very welcome Laurel. I believe the ilIad also has the same problem with accents.

It sure does, Jon. As a new Iliad owner, I couldn't get the "Rubaiyat" to open. I couldn't figure out why, and assumed some sort of insurmountable incompatibility. However, after doing some significant tracking down (okay, I should have just read the notes in the thread it is posted in ;) ), it now works fine.

Thanks to all (for making it available, and for solving my problems...or at least the problems within your ken. For the rest, there's medication. ;) )

Cheers,
Marc