Ereader2Html

[suecsi]

Think I'll stick with another format then as I always pay by Paypal (from bank account) or by Micropay dollars (paid for by Paypal) so they don't have my cc number.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Yoshi 1080

I'm thankful for the script, too! I bought an eBook from Fictionwise on my iPhone once and needed to convert that to ePub. The generated HTML code is so awful it hurts my eyes to look at, but at least IT WORKS!

But now I'm trying to convert the HTML file to ePub with Calibre. Stanza can't open it at all as it believes the ePub file wouldn't exist (wtf?), but more problematically, Adobe Digital Editions displays question marks instead of quotation marks. The quotation marks in the HTML code are standard UTF-8. What do I need to do to change that? Should I replace them with HTML codes instead?

I tried this whole process recently with a drm'd purchase and had issues with converting the quotes and then the converted epub crashing my Sony 505 -- what a pain in the a$$ -- my conclusion is to simply not purchase books in ereader format -- it's just not worth it -- at least to me.

[pdurrant]

There's a new (0.06) version of a certain script around now. Although it still generates the (awful) HTML file, this one claims to have made it easy to get back to an unencrypted eReader file by using the free DropBook utility.

This is probably worth a try, because Calibre does a good job on conversion of unencrypted eReader books to ePub -- and the HTML in the ePub is reasonable.

Links to the script can be found on a certain shadowy person's web log.

Originally Posted by Yoshi 1080

I'm thankful for the script, too! I bought an eBook from Fictionwise on my iPhone once and needed to convert that to ePub. The generated HTML code is so awful it hurts my eyes to look at, but at least IT WORKS!

But now I'm trying to convert the HTML file to ePub with Calibre. Stanza can't open it at all as it believes the ePub file wouldn't exist (wtf?), but more problematically, Adobe Digital Editions displays question marks instead of quotation marks. The quotation marks in the HTML code are standard UTF-8. What do I need to do to change that? Should I replace them with HTML codes instead?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

There's a new (0.06) version of a certain script around now. Although it still generates the (awful) HTML file, this one claims to have made it easy to get back to an unencrypted eReader file by using the free DropBook utility.

This is probably worth a try, because Calibre does a good job on conversion of unencrypted eReader books to ePub -- and the HTML in the ePub is reasonable.

Links to the script can be found on a certain shadowy person's web log.

I believe that's thats what I used but still had the quotation and crashing issues.

[pdurrant]

Until recently eReader2HTML didn't generate very good HTML. It's still pretty bad, structurally, but now it has a proper doctype and character set declaration, so the problem with quotation marks will be gone.

Originally Posted by kennyc

I believe that's thats what I used but still had the quotation and crashing issues.

[kennyc]

Hmmm, I'm just verifying this and I think I may have been working with an older version....

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Until recently eReader2HTML didn't generate very good HTML. It's still pretty bad, structurally, but now it has a proper doctype and character set declaration, so the problem with quotation marks will be gone.

Dude! You've restored my faith! Karma to you, I'm a believer again.

I finally found and downloaded a version of 6 that ran. I think I have some problems getting it to ever run, but past that in any case. Went through the De-Ding, imported into Calibre, convert to epub and loaded on my Sony 505 and all looks good!

Thank you for your persistence.

[pdurrant]

It seems there's now even a 0.07, that extracts footnotes and sidebars correctly.

Not that I have any encrypted eReader ebooks that have footnotes and sidebars.

Originally Posted by kennyc

Dude! You've restored my faith! Karma to you, I'm a believer again.

I finally found and downloaded a version of 6 that ran. I think I have some problems getting it to ever run, but past that in any case. Went through the De-Ding, imported into Calibre, convert to epub and loaded on my Sony 505 and all looks good!

Thank you for your persistence.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

It seems there's now even a 0.07, that extracts footnotes and sidebars correctly.

Not that I have any encrypted eReader ebooks that have footnotes and sidebars.

Damn! Just when you think it's safe to go back in the water.



I have to go digging some more unless someone pm's or email's me.

[kennyc]

Okay, I think I got it. Will test it out tonight at home...

[tamzilla]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

It seems there's now even a 0.07, that extracts footnotes and sidebars correctly.

I've tried v07 on a book that had footnotes and it works great (the hyperlinks work!). The 06 and 07 versions also spit out the pml file that you can run through Dropbook if you want an unencrypted ereader file. Unfortunately Dropbook doesn't support footnotes according to its readme file (I guess development on it was stopped after Fictionwise bought Ereader).

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by tamzilla

I've tried v07 on a book that had footnotes and it works great (the hyperlinks work!). The 06 and 07 versions also spit out the pml file that you can run through Dropbook if you want an unencrypted ereader file. Unfortunately Dropbook doesn't support footnotes according to its readme file (I guess development on it was stopped after Fictionwise bought Ereader).

Thanks for the info!

[Xenophon]

Originally Posted by tamzilla

I've tried v07 on a book that had footnotes and it works great (the hyperlinks work!). The 06 and 07 versions also spit out the pml file that you can run through Dropbook if you want an unencrypted ereader file. Unfortunately Dropbook doesn't support footnotes according to its readme file (I guess development on it was stopped after Fictionwise bought Ereader).

Regardless of what the README says, Dropbook appears to handle footnotes correctly. I've had good results sending pml files with footnotes through Dropbook. I go that route because Calibre's conversion from pdb to other formats produces better results than when I start from the html produced by ereader2html.

Xenophon

[pdurrant]

This has been my experience too. It's hardly surprising really - eReader2HTML does a quick one pass conversion with no real intelligence, as it's just a hack on to the end of the decoding process.

Whereas Calibre has had a lot more thought and effort put into the conversion process, and is liable to continue to improve.

Originally Posted by Xenophon

Calibre's conversion from pdb to other formats produces better results than when I start from the html produced by ereader2html.

[shrktank]

where can I download and find the ereader2html.py?