Authors

jgs · 07-18-2007, 08:10 PM

With all the great books being converted, I became curious on the knowing more about the different authors. I began reviewing the Wikipedia entries for some and then decided that I wanted to carry these writeups on my reader. Using the Sony settings written on the Sony forum, I created a special setting for my Acrobat application and then printed the Wikipedia "article". I set the title properties to be the authors last name and then first name and the author to "Wikipedia". These files seem to be quite readable in Connect and my reader. The copyright section of Wikipedia leads me to believe that I have not voilated anything.

Based on recommendations, I have placed all currently collected authors in this first thread and included their contents.

Contents for 070719
Alexandre Dumas.pdf
Algeron Blackwood.pdf
Carey Rockwell.pdf
Charles Dickens.pdf
Charlotte Bronte.pdf
E E Smith.pdf
Edgar Wallace.pdf
Fyodor Dostoevsky.pdf
G K Chesterton.pdf
George Lewis Becke.pdf
George MacDonald.pdf
George Orwell.pdf
H Irving Hancock.pdf
Henry Rider Haggard.pdf
James Hadley Chase.pdf
Jane Austen.pdf
John Buchan.pdf
John Galsworthy.pdf
John Kendrick Bangs.pdf
Mary E Braddon.pdf
R Austin Freeman.pdf
Robert Michael Ballantyne.pdf
Theodore Dreiser.pdf
Victor Appleton.pdf
Wilkie Collins.pdf
William Hope Hodgson.pdf
Zane Grey.pdf

Contents for 070720
C J Cutcliffe Hyne.pdf
D H Lawrence.pdf
Ed Lacy.pdf
Franz Kafka.pdf
H L Mencken.pdf
H P Lovecraft.pdf
Harry Harrison.pdf
Hugh Lofting.pdf
James Fenimore Cooper.pdf
Johnston McCulley.pdf
Jonathan Latimer.pdf
Joris-Karl Huysmans.pdf
Kate Chopin.pdf
Malcolm Jameson.pdf
Otis Adelbert Kline.pdf
Robert E Howard.pdf
Rudyard Kipling.pdf
Thomas Hardy.pdf
Thomas Kempis.pdf
Victor Hugo.pdf

Contents for 070722
A Merritt.pdf
Arthur Morrison.pdf
Christopher Morley.pdf
E Nesbit.pdf
Edgar Allan Poe.pdf
Emma Orczy.pdf
Frederick Marryat.pdf
H Beam Piper.pdf
Herman Melville.pdf
J McCullough.pdf
Lucy Maud Montgomery.pdf
Talbot Mundy.pdf
W C Morrow.pdf
William Morris.pdf

Contents for 070726
Arthur Conan Doyle.pdf
David Lindsay.pdf
Francis Stevens.pdf
Garrett P Serviss.pdf
Henry W Longfellow.pdf
Henryk Sienkiewicz.pdf
Jack London.pdf
James Stephens.pdf
Mary Shelley.pdf
Rafael Sabatini.pdf
Robert Louis Stevenson.pdf
Sax Rohmer.pdf
Sherwood Anderson.pdf
Tobias Smollett.pdf

Contents for 070731
Agatha Christie.pdf
Andrew Lang.pdf
H G Wells.pdf
Horace Walpole.pdf
Jean Webster.pdf
Jules Verne.pdf
Leo Tolstoy.pdf
Lew Wallace.pdf
Lionel White.pdf
Mark Twain.pdf
S S Van Dine.pdf
Stanley G Weinbaum.pdf
Thea von Harbou.pdf
Thomas Carlyle.pdf
Thomas More.pdf
Voltaire.pdf

Contents for 070801
Ambrose Bierce.pdf
Bram Stoker.pdf
Clarence Darrow.pdf
Daisy Ashford.pdf
Earl Derr Biggers.pdf
Edgar Rice Burroughs.pdf
Edmund Clerihew Bentley.pdf
Ellis Parker Butler.pdf
Emily Bronte.pdf
Geoffrey Chaucer.pdf
Guy Boothby.pdf
James Branch Cabell.pdf
Miguel de Cervantes.pdf
Robert Chambers.pdf
Robert Erskine Childers.pdf
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.pdf
Vicente Blasco Ibanez.pdf
Willa Cather.pdf
William Thomas Beckford.pdf

Contents for 070803
Charles Darwin.pdf
Charles Elme Francatelli.pdf
Charles Fort.pdf
Clarence Day.pdf
E M Forster.pdf
Edgar Jepson.pdf
Edgar Lee Masters.pdf
Edward Bulwer-Lytton.pdf
Edward Plunkett.pdf
Emma Darcy.pdf
Eric Rucker Eddison.pdf
F Scott Fitzgerald.pdf
George Eliot.pdf
Honore de Balzac.pdf
J Meade Falkner.pdf
Jacques Futrelle.pdf
John Charles Dent.pdf
Jonathan Swift.pdf
Joseph Conrad.pdf
Maurice Leblanc.pdf
Olaudah Equiano.pdf
Ray Cummings.pdf
Robert Frost.pdf

Contents for 070804
Alain-Rene Lesage.pdf
David Goodis.pdf
Ernest William Hornung.pdf
Grace F Knoche.pdf
Henry James.pdf
J M Barrie.pdf
James Gunn.pdf
James Hilton.pdf
Jeffery Farnol.pdf
Jerome K Jerome.pdf
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.pdf
John Bunyan.pdf
Kenneth Grahame.pdf
Madame Guyon.pdf
Samuel Johnson.pdf
Sheridan Le Fanu.pdf
W W Jacobs.pdf
Washington Irving.pdf

Contents for 070808
Allan Pinkerton.pdf
Anthony Trollope.pdf
Arnold Bennett.pdf
Charles Willeford.pdf
Edward Stratemeyer.pdf
Emily Post.pdf
Frank L Packard.pdf
Frank Norris.pdf
George Meredith.pdf
Lewis Carroll.pdf
Louisa May Alcott.pdf
P G Wodehouse.pdf
Philip Francis Nowlan.pdf
Roy Rockwood.pdf
Samuel Smiles.pdf
Virginia Woolf.pdf
Walter de la Mare.pdf
William Shakespeare.pdf

Contents for 070809
Achmed Abdullah.pdf
Aesop.pdf
Alfred Tennyson.pdf
Booth Tarkington.pdf
Charles Williams.pdf
Emile Zola.pdf
John Woolman.pdf
Ludwig Wittgenstein.pdf
Oscar Wilde.pdf
T E Lawrence.pdf
Wallace Wattles.pdf
Xenophon.pdf
Yann Martel.pdf
Zitkala-Sa.pdf

Contents for 070817
Cabeza de Vaca.pdf
Edward FitzGerald.pdf
Edward Streeter.pdf
George Grossmith.pdf
James Joyce.pdf
Josephine Tey.pdf
Madame de Lafayette.pdf
Thorne Smith.pdf
William Cobbett.pdf

Contents for 070825
Jean-Paul Sartre.pdf
Lady Charlotte Guest.pdf
Lester del Rey.pdf
M P Shiel.pdf
Mary Mapes Dodge.pdf
Peter Watts.pdf
Samuel Adams.pdf
Sinclair Lewis.pdf
Sun Tzu.pdf
T S Eliot.pdf
Thomas W Hanshew.pdf
Waldemar Bonsels.pdf
Walt Whitman.pdf

Contents for 070902
David Graham Phillips.pdf
David Hume.pdf
Elizabeth Gaskell.pdf
Ernest Bramah.pdf
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.pdf
James Hogg.pdf
Johanna Spyri.pdf
John Muir.pdf
John Stuart Mill.pdf
Karel Capek.pdf
William Blake.pdf

HarryT · 07-19-2007, 02:51 AM

Very good idea - I too find it interesting to read about authors; some of them led quite fascinating lives (eg did you know that Dame Barbara Cartland, famed for being the "queen of romance novels", was an early aviation pioneer?).

Fine to copy stuff from Wikipedia as long as you credit it, as you have done. BTW, the word is "copyright", not "copywrite" - it refers to the right to control copying.

Why create it as PDF, as a matter of interest? LRF is much more "user friendly".

jgs · 07-19-2007, 08:53 AM

I chose PDF because it was the easiest way to get something that was readable. Creating an LRF file with the various tools available took more time and fiddling.

If there is a simpler way to go from a web page to LRF please let me know.

I'll upload the other 26 author files that I have this evening after work.

Jim

NatCh · 07-19-2007, 10:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jgs

If there is a simpler way to go from a web page to LRF please let me know.

Which one are you using now?

jgs · 07-19-2007, 11:58 AM

As of last night (at work now) I would go the the Wiki author site, set to "Printable Version", and print to PDF using the PDF settings for "Sony" and page size for "Sony". Then I modify the properties slightly and I am done. After I have the Wiki author site this takes about 30 - 60 seconds to complete.

Jim

NatCh · 07-19-2007, 12:01 PM

I meant to ask how you're making the LRF files -- it helps to know what way you're currently using before we try to suggest a better one.

jgs · 07-19-2007, 12:29 PM

I have used BookDesigner and RasterFarian. Libprs500 seems like it would work; however, I get a little confused using the command line interface.

Jim

JSWolf · 07-19-2007, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jgs

I have used BookDesigner and RasterFarian. Libprs500 seems like it would work; however, I get a little confused using the command line interface.

Jim

Quote:

html2lrf -a "name of author" -t "title of book" --header --left-margin=5 --right-margin=5 "filename of book"

Open a command prompt. Go to the directory you have your books stored in and have a look at what's quoted. If it comes out ok, then you are done.

jgs · 07-19-2007, 03:52 PM

OK, I tried the html2lrf with the attached results. I also included the PDF. I must still be doing something wrong as I prefer the PDF version.

Jim

JSWolf · 07-19-2007, 03:56 PM

Are you sure you even have the same HTML to start with? The LRF doesn't have the same content as the PDF. Can you give the URL and I'll see what can be done?

jgs · 07-19-2007, 05:02 PM

The URL is: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...&printable=yes

Jim

JSWolf · 07-19-2007, 07:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jgs

The URL is: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...&printable=yes

Jim

That is some really really bad HTML code. And I got the same mess it seems when using html2lrf.

RWood · 07-19-2007, 09:15 PM

I did a save as HTML from FireFox on the same URL and then loaded it in BookDesigner using the "open with ..." command.

I did a bit better than the first effort although nowhere as nice as the PDF version posted.

kovidgoyal · 07-19-2007, 10:27 PM

Wikipedia's HTML is god's own mess...I could write a profile for web2lrf that would clean it up first...but I lack the motivation.

HarryT · 07-29-2007, 03:19 AM

A suggestion - it would be a lot easier for people to find them if you were to put all the attachments on the 1st message in the thread!

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07-19-2007, 02:51 AM	#2
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Very good idea - I too find it interesting to read about authors; some of them led quite fascinating lives (eg did you know that Dame Barbara Cartland, famed for being the "queen of romance novels", was an early aviation pioneer?). Fine to copy stuff from Wikipedia as long as you credit it, as you have done. BTW, the word is "copyright", not "copywrite" - it refers to the right to control copying. Why create it as PDF, as a matter of interest? LRF is much more "user friendly".

07-19-2007, 08:53 AM	#3
jgs Member Posts: 21 Karma: 61 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Seattle, WA Device: PRS-500	I chose PDF because it was the easiest way to get something that was readable. Creating an LRF file with the various tools available took more time and fiddling. If there is a simpler way to go from a web page to LRF please let me know. I'll upload the other 26 author files that I have this evening after work. Jim

07-19-2007, 11:58 AM	#5
jgs Member Posts: 21 Karma: 61 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Seattle, WA Device: PRS-500	As of last night (at work now) I would go the the Wiki author site, set to "Printable Version", and print to PDF using the PDF settings for "Sony" and page size for "Sony". Then I modify the properties slightly and I am done. After I have the Wiki author site this takes about 30 - 60 seconds to complete. Jim

07-19-2007, 12:01 PM	#6
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	I meant to ask how you're making the LRF files -- it helps to know what way you're currently using before we try to suggest a better one.

07-19-2007, 12:29 PM	#7
jgs Member Posts: 21 Karma: 61 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Seattle, WA Device: PRS-500	I have used BookDesigner and RasterFarian. Libprs500 seems like it would work; however, I get a little confused using the command line interface. Jim

07-19-2007, 03:56 PM	#10
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 74,015 Karma: 129333114 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Are you sure you even have the same HTML to start with? The LRF doesn't have the same content as the PDF. Can you give the URL and I'll see what can be done?

07-19-2007, 05:02 PM	#11
jgs Member Posts: 21 Karma: 61 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Seattle, WA Device: PRS-500	The URL is: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...&printable=yes Jim

07-19-2007, 10:27 PM	#14
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,860 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Wikipedia's HTML is god's own mess...I could write a profile for web2lrf that would clean it up first...but I lack the motivation.

07-29-2007, 03:19 AM	#15
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	A suggestion - it would be a lot easier for people to find them if you were to put all the attachments on the 1st message in the thread!

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