Page Error!

Dencarwill · 04-01-2012, 10:57 PM

Can someone help me with my Sony Reader. It is usually wonderful, but I am now having a problem opening a book. The book is OK on my computer and appears to be OK on the reader until I try to open it - it just shows Page Error. This has never happened before. I downloaded 2 books at the same time, the other one is fine.

Belfaborac · 04-02-2012, 12:39 AM

I've had this issue once too and never found out what the cause was (didn't try very hard either). What I did was to open it in Sigil, run "Validate ePUB" and then save it. After that it worked fine.

cybmole · 04-02-2012, 03:53 AM

it is most likely caused by the book not being split in to chapter files. you get page error if 1 of the component files is too large. it is easy to fix in sigil / calibre. try "converting" epub to epub in calibre then see it the result opens OK on your reader.

carpetmojo · 04-02-2012, 05:47 AM

I had this happen once, I deleted the book, d/loaded it onto PC, reloaded it, all OK.

Dunno why ...........

Shopaholic · 04-02-2012, 07:20 PM

Which model Sony reader do you have? Some of the older ones got the page protected error for a few different reasons.

snarkophilus · 04-02-2012, 11:04 PM

I've also seen an error (sorry, I don't recall the exact wording but I think it might be "invalid page") on my T1 when I try to re-open a book after I modify it (in say Sigil). I've tracked this down to the entry for the book in the "current_position" table in books.db on the device pointing to an invalid location. The actual location in the book is stored as a reference like "OEBPS/Text/asimov-youthebook-3.html#point(/1/4/104/1:252)" and if that position no longer valid you get the error with no way to recover on the reader itself.

There's two ways around this. First, as carpetmojo said, just delete the book from the reader and reload. The second is to use one of the SQLite tools and find your book's ID in the "books" table in the books.db, then delete the entry for that ID that from the "current_position" (remembering that the book ID column is called "content_id" in the "current_position" table). Needless to say I usually use the first option

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I think, but am not sure, that my old PRS-350 simply went back to the start of the book if it got confused by where it thought your current position was rather than this annoying behaviour on the T1.

I've been thinking of raising a feature request in Calibre to handle this, but I'm still not sure what the right thing to do is. The sledgehammer would be for Calibre to always remove the "current_position" entry for any book that it replaces, but that also removes where you're up to if the location in "current_position" is still valid which would be annoying. The correct thing would be for the reader itself to behave the way I recall the PRS-350 working - if it's confused, just go to the start of the book instead of putting up an error.

Cheers,
Simon.

04-01-2012, 10:57 PM	#1
Dencarwill Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: Sony Reader	Page Error! Can someone help me with my Sony Reader. It is usually wonderful, but I am now having a problem opening a book. The book is OK on my computer and appears to be OK on the reader until I try to open it - it just shows Page Error. This has never happened before. I downloaded 2 books at the same time, the other one is fine.

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04-02-2012, 12:39 AM	#2
Belfaborac Wizard Posts: 1,498 Karma: 5199835 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Norway Device: Sony PRS-505, PRS-950	I've had this issue once too and never found out what the cause was (didn't try very hard either). What I did was to open it in Sigil, run "Validate ePUB" and then save it. After that it worked fine.

04-02-2012, 03:53 AM	#3
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	it is most likely caused by the book not being split in to chapter files. you get page error if 1 of the component files is too large. it is easy to fix in sigil / calibre. try "converting" epub to epub in calibre then see it the result opens OK on your reader.

04-02-2012, 05:47 AM	#4
carpetmojo Wizard Posts: 3,117 Karma: 9269999 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: UK Device: Sony- T3, PRS650, 350, T1/2/3, Paperwhite, Fire 8.9,Samsung Tab S 10.5	I had this happen once, I deleted the book, d/loaded it onto PC, reloaded it, all OK. Dunno why ...........

04-02-2012, 07:20 PM	#5
Shopaholic Cockatoo Mom! Posts: 1,509 Karma: 1812695 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Ontario, Canada Device: PW4, Kobo: A1, Clara, Libra 2, iPad Pro 11, iPad Mini	Which model Sony reader do you have? Some of the older ones got the page protected error for a few different reasons.

04-02-2012, 11:04 PM	#6
snarkophilus Wannabe Connoisseur Posts: 425 Karma: 2516674 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Geelong, Australia Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura 2, Sony PRS-T1, Sony PRS-350, Palm TX	I've also seen an error (sorry, I don't recall the exact wording but I think it might be "invalid page") on my T1 when I try to re-open a book after I modify it (in say Sigil). I've tracked this down to the entry for the book in the "current_position" table in books.db on the device pointing to an invalid location. The actual location in the book is stored as a reference like "OEBPS/Text/asimov-youthebook-3.html#point(/1/4/104/1:252)" and if that position no longer valid you get the error with no way to recover on the reader itself. There's two ways around this. First, as carpetmojo said, just delete the book from the reader and reload. The second is to use one of the SQLite tools and find your book's ID in the "books" table in the books.db, then delete the entry for that ID that from the "current_position" (remembering that the book ID column is called "content_id" in the "current_position" table). Needless to say I usually use the first option . I think, but am not sure, that my old PRS-350 simply went back to the start of the book if it got confused by where it thought your current position was rather than this annoying behaviour on the T1. I've been thinking of raising a feature request in Calibre to handle this, but I'm still not sure what the right thing to do is. The sledgehammer would be for Calibre to always remove the "current_position" entry for any book that it replaces, but that also removes where you're up to if the location in "current_position" is still valid which would be annoying. The correct thing would be for the reader itself to behave the way I recall the PRS-350 working - if it's confused, just go to the start of the book instead of putting up an error. Cheers, Simon.

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