Connect Classics Recommendations? - Page 2

JSWolf · 08-11-2007, 05:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Since I love Balzac here's my contribution
Eugenie Grandet

Code:

web2lrf --url http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1715/1715-h/1715-h.htm --force-page-break-before-attr "a,name,.*" -t "Eugenie Grandet" -a "Honore de Balzac" --headerformat "%t by %a" -o "Eugenie Grandet.lrf"

You need libprs500 v0.3.94 for this to work.

--headerformat "%t by %a" doesn't work. All the header shows is ... by

kovidgoyal · 08-11-2007, 05:18 PM

works for me.

JSWolf · 08-11-2007, 05:18 PM

I changed it to --header and that worked. But --headerformat did not work.

Dr. Drib · 08-12-2007, 05:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Patricia

I haven't downloaded any of the Balzacs in the Sony Connect Classics. Has anyone else? I'd like to know what they look like.

The two Balzac titles I've downloaded look just like all the other Classics I've downloaded: there are spaces between paragraphs (I personally don't care for that); no links (none of the $1.99 Classics have links; this is to be expected, but I personally prefer links).

They're certainly readable, but the formatting leaves so much to be desired; but then again, that's why they're $1.99.

Don

beowulf573 · 08-12-2007, 10:45 AM

I contributed the patch for --headerformat; you need to specify --header also, unless that's been changed since I submitted the patch.

LaughingVulcan · 08-18-2007, 10:46 PM

Thanks again, all for the suggestions.

What I decided to do was search in the Connect web page (not Connect Reader Store) using "Sony CONNECT, Inc." as the search term. That pulled up what I assume are all the Classics that the credit can be used on. It pulled up 500. So I looked at all 500, 50 books at a time. I typed in Word every one that I was really interested in having. And, wouldn't you know, exactly 50 came up! (But there are two separate translations of the Iliad in there. The Iliad on the Reader!!! :lol: )

I know many of the following are already here (or PG). But I've got the credit and these are the ones that I'm interested in. So it's time to start downloading!

For those interested, here are my selections:
1. 20,000 Leagues
2. America Notes, Rudyard Kipling
3. The World Set Free – H.G. Wells
4. The Upanishads – Swami Paramananda
5. Twenty Years After – Alexandre Dumas
6. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
7. The Time Machine
8. Walden by Thoreau
9. The Sonnets by Shakespeare
10. King Henry VI by Shakespeare
11. Aesop’s Fables
12. The Three Musketeers by Dumas
13. Othello by Shakespeare
14. The Divine Comedy by Aligheieri
15. Ivanhoe by Scott
16. Henry 8th
17. Beowulf
18. Midsummer’s Night
19. Treasure Island
20. Tale of Two Cities
21. The Raven
22. Poems by T.S. Elliot
23. Romeo and Juliet
24. The Tragedy of King Lear
25. The Prince by Machiavelli
26. Hamlet
27. Macbeth
28. The Argonautica by Rhodius
29. The Aeneid by Virgil
30. Sense and Sensibility by Austen
31. Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
32. Le Morte d’Arthur by Mallory
33. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln by Lincoln
34. The Divine Comedy by Dante
35. St. Ives by Stevenson
36. The Iliad of Homer by Homer
37. The Compleat Angler by Walton
38. Agamemnon by Aeschylus
39. The War of the Worlds
40. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne
41. Pride and Prejudice by Austen
42. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde
43. Moby Dick by Melville
44. Leaves of Grass by Whitman
45. Frankenstein by Shelley
46. Faust by Goethe
47. Don Juan by Byron
48. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain
49. An Inquiy into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
50. The Iliad of Homer in prose Translation by Walter Lang by Homer

Since the 50th is a dupe, I'm going to take Patricia's suggestion and go for a Balzac. - One that she hasn't posted here yet, if that be possible, since the above about standard only text characters in the formatting.

I might do just a little adjustment, also - I'm missing The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Dumas, for example. Not sure if I missed that one in the list, or if it wasn't there. Oh, and a lot of the ones on the list I've already done on my own (but didn't consider the formatting good enough to upload here.) And I'm still working on a good copy of Leaves of Grass.

But anyway, thanks for the help.

JSWolf · 08-18-2007, 10:58 PM

For the ones that are here, are you going to download those instead of getting them from the Connect Store?

HarryT · 08-20-2007, 03:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LaughingVulcan

I might do just a little adjustment, also - I'm missing The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Dumas, for example. Not sure if I missed that one in the list, or if it wasn't there.

Just a note that you can download that here - it's a (small) part of the (enormous) 4 volume "D'Artagnan Romances" that I published a while ago.

LaughingVulcan · 08-20-2007, 08:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

For the ones that are here, are you going to download those instead of getting them from the Connect Store?

The Connect Store, for now. Since I have the credits, I intend to use them.
I think that to start out, when I'm actually ready to read an individual one I'll probably download it here also. Then load both and compare them.

LaughingVulcan · 08-20-2007, 08:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

Just a note that you can download that here - it's a (small) part of the (enormous) 4 volume "D'Artagnan Romances" that I published a while ago.

Actually, that's one that I also have made for myself, but I didn't consider my version "release worthy."

HarryT · 08-20-2007, 08:39 AM

I think you will find that, generally speaking at least, the ones from this forum are much nicer. They have the same origin as the ones on Connect (ie PG) but have been much more carefully formatted. I'd certainly be interested in your feedback on the comparison between the two

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ns66 · 08-20-2007, 09:03 PM

Hi I have 2 ereaders got 150 classic books to order, what a pita

I don't know much about classic books, a couple dozen maybe, certainly won't be able to fill the 150 list, anyone got a good list so I can just pick them by author? (btw what a pain using connect website lol)

thx

Hadrien · 08-20-2007, 09:27 PM

There's already a similar thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12771

RWood · 08-20-2007, 10:06 PM

While Don has problems with poetry (as did I), I had more problems with plays. Between stage instructions, actor's dialog, and footnotes the plays were the slowest formatting for me. As time went on (as there are several volumes of them in the Harvard Classics series) they did get a bit easier. But that is a lot like dropping a rock on your foot to get rid of a headache.

In short, if there are any plays out there, grab them.

ns66 · 08-20-2007, 11:43 PM

thanks

08-18-2007, 10:46 PM	#21
LaughingVulcan Technophile Posts: 204 Karma: 617 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Land of Lincoln Device: PRS-650 Sony, Nook Simpletouch, more legacy gear than I can remember	Thanks again, all for the suggestions. What I decided to do was search in the Connect web page (not Connect Reader Store) using "Sony CONNECT, Inc." as the search term. That pulled up what I assume are all the Classics that the credit can be used on. It pulled up 500. So I looked at all 500, 50 books at a time. I typed in Word every one that I was really interested in having. And, wouldn't you know, exactly 50 came up! (But there are two separate translations of the Iliad in there. The Iliad on the Reader!!! :lol: ) I know many of the following are already here (or PG). But I've got the credit and these are the ones that I'm interested in. So it's time to start downloading! For those interested, here are my selections: 1. 20,000 Leagues 2. America Notes, Rudyard Kipling 3. The World Set Free – H.G. Wells 4. The Upanishads – Swami Paramananda 5. Twenty Years After – Alexandre Dumas 6. Bram Stoker’s Dracula 7. The Time Machine 8. Walden by Thoreau 9. The Sonnets by Shakespeare 10. King Henry VI by Shakespeare 11. Aesop’s Fables 12. The Three Musketeers by Dumas 13. Othello by Shakespeare 14. The Divine Comedy by Aligheieri 15. Ivanhoe by Scott 16. Henry 8th 17. Beowulf 18. Midsummer’s Night 19. Treasure Island 20. Tale of Two Cities 21. The Raven 22. Poems by T.S. Elliot 23. Romeo and Juliet 24. The Tragedy of King Lear 25. The Prince by Machiavelli 26. Hamlet 27. Macbeth 28. The Argonautica by Rhodius 29. The Aeneid by Virgil 30. Sense and Sensibility by Austen 31. Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas 32. Le Morte d’Arthur by Mallory 33. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln by Lincoln 34. The Divine Comedy by Dante 35. St. Ives by Stevenson 36. The Iliad of Homer by Homer 37. The Compleat Angler by Walton 38. Agamemnon by Aeschylus 39. The War of the Worlds 40. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne 41. Pride and Prejudice by Austen 42. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde 43. Moby Dick by Melville 44. Leaves of Grass by Whitman 45. Frankenstein by Shelley 46. Faust by Goethe 47. Don Juan by Byron 48. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain 49. An Inquiy into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 50. The Iliad of Homer in prose Translation by Walter Lang by Homer Since the 50th is a dupe, I'm going to take Patricia's suggestion and go for a Balzac. - One that she hasn't posted here yet, if that be possible, since the above about standard only text characters in the formatting. I might do just a little adjustment, also - I'm missing The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Dumas, for example. Not sure if I missed that one in the list, or if it wasn't there. Oh, and a lot of the ones on the list I've already done on my own (but didn't consider the formatting good enough to upload here.) And I'm still working on a good copy of Leaves of Grass. But anyway, thanks for the help. Last edited by LaughingVulcan; 08-18-2007 at 10:52 PM.

08-20-2007, 09:03 PM	#27
ns66 Connoisseur Posts: 78 Karma: 156 Join Date: Jul 2007 Device: sony reader	classic books recommendation? Hi I have 2 ereaders got 150 classic books to order, what a pita I don't know much about classic books, a couple dozen maybe, certainly won't be able to fill the 150 list, anyone got a good list so I can just pick them by author? (btw what a pain using connect website lol) thx

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