05-03-2010, 12:38 PM | #1 |
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Meet the Author and FREE Steven Lake title up
Dear All:
Today we have two new items on EZread.com: 1. A special Meet The Author where we interviewed Steven Lake, a writer if fantastic science fiction and a brand new saga. Take this opportunity to learn more about what makes Steven a great writer and what he has coming out! This is the first in a continuing series on Meet The Author and a feature we think makes www.EZread.com a great place to purchase eBooks. 2. To get you started on Steven Lake's "Earthfleet" Saga, Steven has consented to offer the first novel in the saga for FREE. There is NO DRM and no reason not to enjoy it. Just click on Meet The Author and you will see the free download button for the first novel in the Saga!! We loved it and we are now hooked. You will be too!! We hope you will enjoy the changes to www.EZread.com |
05-03-2010, 01:13 PM | #2 |
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Interesting...my workplace's firewall is blocking the EZread.com page. Don't know why, they weren't last week. It doesn't give anything but the blank block page. Usually that means there is some kind of code reason, not a content reason (those throw a different error page).
Since I can't provide useful information about why they are blocking it, this probably isn't useful. |
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05-03-2010, 01:53 PM | #3 |
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Thanks, Robert! I've read the interview and downloaded the book. I'll start reading it today!
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05-03-2010, 02:44 PM | #4 | |
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Did you try both?
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Did you try both: www.MyEZread.com and www.EZread.com? Both are still working. |
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05-03-2010, 05:24 PM | #5 |
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Yeah, everything works fine on my end. BTW, I like the fancy stuff you did with the author interview page.
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05-03-2010, 05:33 PM | #6 | |
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My biggest fear is not finishing the saga!!
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I think the author interview page looks good and you surely did a great interview!! In fact, you now have me hooked on the book!! Promise me you will lock yourself up in a space ship and finsih the saga!! I think you are onto something. Jenifer and the Webmaster deserve the credit for the fancy stuff. YOU deserve our thanks for getting all of us hooked on the saga!! |
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05-03-2010, 06:12 PM | #7 | |
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I am coming up with a lot of nonsense characters (wrapped around words and phrases) in various EPUB Viewers (Calibre, Sigil, EPUBREADER and the PEz Sample phrase: (page 6/192) Who are they? Stuff before and After |
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05-03-2010, 08:28 PM | #8 |
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TheDucks: Just double checked it in Calibre, and it looks fine. Others are seeing it just fine as well. Check your system and see if you've got font issues.
Robertb: Thanks. I think you guys will really enjoy it. ^_^ I'm actually picking away at book 5 right now. |
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Same thing as My Windows system and PEz EDIT Add: OK I went to your Web site and downloaded the Sample PDF The problem characters appear to be the opening and closing Quotes (UTF-8) that some how got mangled in the EPUB conversion. I don't see a language declaration that might control what set gets used Last edited by theducks; 08-16-2012 at 08:29 PM. |
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05-04-2010, 04:51 AM | #10 | |
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It has the same character encoding errors, so it depends on what reader you use to read it since some readers are compensating for the errors. The book looks OK in the PC versions of Calibre, CoolReader 3 and ADE, but the encoding error becomes easily visible in EpubReader or Sigil. If the HTML is extracted from the EPUB, it looks bad in the Firefox, IE, and Chrome browsers. It appears that the book is specifying the UTF-8 character encoding set but is actually using a different character encoding set, possibly windows-1252? |
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I clicked "Meet the Author" and clicked Download (got RAR file, mostly redundant, since EPUB is a Zipped format and additional compression gains are small) on my Windows XP system. Used WinRAR to un-pack. I repeated the download on my Linux system. Same resulting display. The Sample (PDF) is what I compared to, to figure out what chars were farkled up . |
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05-04-2010, 10:14 AM | #15 |
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Well, is there any easy way to fix that? This hasn't come up as a problem until just now.
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