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mtravellerh · 06-02-2009, 03:02 AM

Congratulations.

I tried your script extensively. It works really good and the eBooks resulting are more than adequate, even great compared to Manybook's efforts. As always, your GUI is well thought out and does work admirably.

A shame that there is no auto creation of covers though, but I am not aware of any such freeware or opensource software. Apart from that and some coding idiocies coming from the Gutenberg coders (making Tocs with page numbers as links, for example) the generated eBooks are instantly readable and the different formats compare favorably.

As you're aware yourself, there are still some problems with illustration sizes in ePub. For a first version, this is superb work!

K to you!

As an aside for Iphone/Ipod users: Use this to convert your Gutenberg books to ePub for Stanza. They will be perfectly formatted and you can autogenerate a cover. Best solution so far!

06-02-2009, 03:02 AM	#3
mtravellerh book creator Posts: 9,635 Karma: 3856660 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Luxembourg Device: PB360°	Congratulations. I tried your script extensively. It works really good and the eBooks resulting are more than adequate, even great compared to Manybook's efforts. As always, your GUI is well thought out and does work admirably. A shame that there is no auto creation of covers though, but I am not aware of any such freeware or opensource software. Apart from that and some coding idiocies coming from the Gutenberg coders (making Tocs with page numbers as links, for example) the generated eBooks are instantly readable and the different formats compare favorably. As you're aware yourself, there are still some problems with illustration sizes in ePub. For a first version, this is superb work! K to you! As an aside for Iphone/Ipod users: Use this to convert your Gutenberg books to ePub for Stanza. They will be perfectly formatted and you can autogenerate a cover. Best solution so far! Last edited by mtravellerh; 06-02-2009 at 04:08 AM.