08-17-2010, 12:38 AM | #1 |
Member
Posts: 23
Karma: 10
Join Date: Jul 2010
Device: prs-505
|
Has this ever happened to anyone?
"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman crashes my Sony Reader. I've tried reformatting it, I've tried formatting my reader and reuploading it, I've converted it with 2epub.com and Calibre. It either restarts the device, or gets stuck. i paid 8 bucks for this book and I'd like to read it, anyone have any suggestions as to what might have gone wrong, or any tips?
I run linux btw, newest stable kernel. |
08-17-2010, 12:42 AM | #2 | |
Bookaholic
Posts: 14,391
Karma: 54969924
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Minnesota
Device: iPad Mini 4, AuraHD, iPhone XR +
|
Quote:
What's the original format, ePub, LIT, Mobi??? How about using Calibre to convert it to LRF instead of ePub? Another idea, use Calibre to convert to Mobi and then convert the Mobi back to ePub. |
|
Advert | |
|
08-17-2010, 01:18 AM | #3 |
Member
Posts: 23
Karma: 10
Join Date: Jul 2010
Device: prs-505
|
I can't recall actually, i want to say epub with no drm. I tried converting it to lrf, and now i have a book the reader thinks has 2300 pages, and lots of blank pages, and it gets stuck somewhere about page 15 of teh table of contents, which it displays one chapter per page.
i'll try converting it to mobi and see what happens. |
08-17-2010, 04:52 AM | #4 |
Addict
Posts: 295
Karma: 400001
Join Date: Aug 2010
Device: Sony Reader PRS-600
|
Worst case scenario, display it in a desktop reader, select the whole text, click copy, then paste it into Open Office, save as a PDF and then convert back to epub. It's annoying, but it should strip away anything that's causing problems.
Eric |
08-18-2010, 10:57 PM | #5 |
Zealot
Posts: 140
Karma: 26780
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Device: Aura ONE
|
Do you go back and try to open it after the reader crashes from trying to format? I have this issue with Calibre downloaded newspapers. If I let the reader reboot, and go back to the file that caused the crash, it might crash again, but by the next reboot it will finish formatting.
|
Advert | |
|
08-19-2010, 12:36 PM | #6 |
Member
Posts: 13
Karma: 10
Join Date: Apr 2010
Device: Sony PRS-300
|
Redownload the book. Once you buy it, you can download it as many times as possible.
|
08-19-2010, 08:43 PM | #7 |
Banned
Posts: 640
Karma: 4911
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Grapevine, TX
Device: iPad4
|
Create a copy of the epub.
Rename the *.epub to *.zip and unzip it. Now you will have a html version of your book. Open the html in your browser, copy all and paste into Word. Check the formatting to be as you desire. Scan through and make sure there aren't any strange symbols or null characters, then save it as Web Page, Filtered html. Import that into Calibre and convert back to epub or to lrf. Last edited by edbro; 08-19-2010 at 08:46 PM. |
08-21-2010, 01:30 PM | #8 | |
Nameless Being
|
After re-downloading the book, try opening it again before doing any conversion. If the re-downloaded book still crashes your reader I would notify Sony. Occasionally publishers screw up the ePub formatting just enough that a Sony reader pukes when it tries to read it. Just one meta tag entered incorrectly, depending on which tag, and the reader can puke.
Quote:
Last edited by jswinden; 08-21-2010 at 01:35 PM. |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
What's happened? | hols57 | General Discussions | 16 | 05-24-2010 04:34 AM |
What happened to $9.99? | crutnacker | Amazon Kindle | 14 | 01-10-2010 09:03 AM |
Help it happened again! | RevJonG | Sony Reader | 0 | 12-25-2009 05:56 PM |
What happened. | Aprilbeginnings | Sony Reader | 7 | 12-30-2006 09:45 AM |
What ever happened to... | emale07 | Lounge | 0 | 07-19-2003 11:14 AM |