How Do I Create A HTML jetBook Page Break?

[galavanter]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Sounds more like a problem with the HTML output by ereader2html. There are some threads around here about character problems and how to fix them IIRC.

I'll take your word for it because I don't know HTML, although I have been reading up.

I don't quite follow though. I mean the HTML text, the words of the book, are perfect, including the em dashes, italics, etc. How can the fact that the epub conversions leave out the em dashes be ereader2html's fault? What tag, or lack of one, would cause that?

[galavanter]

Originally Posted by macminer

It seems Jetbook inbuilt HTML viewer actually cares about logical structure of HTML document, so if you use logical tags like H1, H2, H3, H4 for headings, you'll probably see a page break before them.

macminer forgive me but I am a beginner. Would you give me an example of what you mean, using my earlier example? Below, I want "Along" to start on another page. Thanks.

I suppose I should mention Indian Jenny, but you’ll meet her along the way. Listen to her. She knows the gospel truth.<br>
<br>
You’ll see.<br>
<br><br><i>Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range*.*.*. come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River*.*.*.<br>

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by galavanter

I'll take your word for it because I don't know HTML, although I have been reading up.

I don't quite follow though. I mean the HTML text, the words of the book, are perfect, including the em dashes, italics, etc. How can the fact that the epub conversions leave out the em dashes be ereader2html's fault? What tag, or lack of one, would cause that?

It has nothing to do with a tag, but how the HTML is encoded IIRC.

[AnemicOak]

galavanter, here's one of the threads I was thinking of, don't know if it'll help or not...
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51861

[galavanter]

Thank you. It was helpful, in that I learned there is more than meets the eye to these conversions. I tried some steps recommended in that thread, but with no real success.

Now listen to this. I went back to Amazon in frustration to click on the link, "I'd like to read this book on Kindle", which is provided for any book not available yet on the Kindle. Amazon forwards the request to the publisher.

Well it's on the Kindle! I swear I have clicked on that link before, checked numerous times, including just a few days ago before I bought it at ereader.com.

So I bought it, and it converted just fine to epub, just like all my other Amazon purchases have. The book even starts on it's own page.

Thanks everyone for your help.

[macminer]

Originally Posted by galavanter

macminer forgive me but I am a beginner. Would you give me an example of what you mean, using my earlier example? Below, I want "Along" to start on another page. Thanks.

I suppose I should mention Indian Jenny, but you’ll meet her along the way. Listen to her. She knows the gospel truth.<br>
<br>
You’ll see.<br>
<h2>If you want to see a page break, it should appear above this heading</h2>


<br><br><i>Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range*.*.*. come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River*.*.*.<br>


Just remember that <h2>, <h3>, <h4> tags need to have a corresponding closing tag </h2>, etc.

[galavanter]

Thanks macminer, it worked great. All I did was add <h2></h2> where I wanted page breaks, and I got them. Too damn bad I had to spot it on Amazon yesterday.

It turns out the reason for the lack of page breaks in the html may be the fault of the publisher, or whomever did the electronic conversion for them.

When I first purchased the book, I noticed that while reading it on eReader on my Mac, the word "Introduction" stayed in the upper left hand corner the entire way through the book. I went into Windows and it was the same. Page breaks were fine.

I emailed eReader.com and got a reply stating that they had confirmed the problem and sent an "urgent" message to the publisher. I should note here that eReader on my Touch does display properly, page breaks included.

Now that I have three different versions, pdb, html, and epub converted from prc, I can see the difference. The ereader version TOC has only one thing in it, "Introduction" (hence my eReader on the desktop problem).

The Amazon version TOC has About the Author, Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication, and then Introduction. These were all places where I wanted a page break in the html, but didn't have one.

Thanks to all for your help.