What would you pay for custom e-book conversions - Page 3

Gatton · 01-11-2005, 10:25 PM

Hey mike welcome to Mobileread!
Any effort of this type is always appreciated by others who are of a like mind. I know it is tedious work but you obviously enjoy doing it and others will benefit from it as well. I don't believe that your effort and hacker's will be wasted effort since I assume they'll be available in different formats. Plain text is always appreciated since though it isn't pretty at least it can be read anywhere and converted to anything. So I thank you for that!

Thanks again for sharing your work and I hope you'll post a comment or two when you have time.

Take care,
-Gatton

hacker · 01-12-2005, 12:20 AM

To keep the drool flowing, here are some examples of works I have created over the last month or so.. "quick hits". There are a lot more coming, so stay tuned for a busy 1Q2005!

Many of these are tests of a new set of tools I'm building to handle these kinds of works, in conjunction with human eyes and editing. I have a big surprise to launch soon, if all goes well over the next month or so.

Take a look and give me your feedback.

Anti-aliased fonts in Plucker:
http://code.plkr.org/aa/

Creating XPCOM Components
http://code.plkr.org/xpcom/

Version Control with Subversion
http://code.plkr.org/svn/

mobileQuote
http://code.plkr.org/mq/

dictoPlucker (this needs a new name, suggestions?)
http://code.plkr.org/dp/

There are many other projects of this quality that I'm working on as well. Its fun stuff, and I strongly believe in it. I hope my efforts aren't wasted.

lasseelady · 01-14-2005, 08:59 PM

Hello there,
Would you mind helping me out here? I have e-books on my website, www.markraney.com. At present, the short stories I have on my website are in
MS Word. I have talked with Bob here at MobileRead and he advises that a good format to use would be isilo found at www.isilo.com . My question is, since I am not a web designer and have no idea how this works, could you tell me - how does this program work? Do I need to go in and convert all my stories to this format individually or can a person viewing my site go to a link - sort of like adobe and download with that, I hate to be so dumb but this is out of my league but I must find out.
Lasseelady
MarkRaney.com
markraney@markraney.com

Team7 · 01-15-2005, 03:31 AM

Last time I used it it worked like this. You save the webpage as an html file. Then you can just open isilo and select that saved html file and it will convert it to an isilo file for you. Anyone who axeses your webpage can do this so there is no need for you to do it.

Rainer · 07-07-2006, 10:24 AM

hi is there any wikipedia conversion for s60 devices? i know there is a german wikipedia conversion for mobipocket, can you remake such conversion, only in english? (i dont undersand german!)
thanks

Rainer · 07-13-2006, 09:11 AM

hi is there a way to make a template in isilo so i can store just 1 template AND the data instead of thousands of similar .html pages? (e.g. imdb or wikipedia sites...)
thank u

Rainer · 07-28-2006, 05:41 AM

hi
i dont have a clue on how compression settings/options work in compressing a website into isilo format.
ive tried compressing reference sites and information is accessible but contains also alot of junk html formatting/tables/adverting that i want to eliminate from my archive.
are there some pre-made settings or scripts that i can run to automatically convert large websites into isilo?
thx

Cthulhu · 10-28-2006, 01:42 PM

Hi all.

So this may have been covered in many other threads, and if so I apologise:

Is there a market for legally licenses privately/personally requested etext?

If there is, I'd love to know about it and whom I need to bug or bribe to have a private party (like hacker) OCR or whatever texts that are not currently available.
Sadly, I imagine that will all the hullabaloo regarding DRM--& I fully understand their intent, but disagree with implementation--precludes this possibility.

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01-11-2005, 10:25 PM	#31
Gatton Groupie Posts: 150 Karma: 368 Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Charlotte, NC Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2021, assorted Fire tablets.	Hey mike welcome to Mobileread! Any effort of this type is always appreciated by others who are of a like mind. I know it is tedious work but you obviously enjoy doing it and others will benefit from it as well. I don't believe that your effort and hacker's will be wasted effort since I assume they'll be available in different formats. Plain text is always appreciated since though it isn't pretty at least it can be read anywhere and converted to anything. So I thank you for that! Thanks again for sharing your work and I hope you'll post a comment or two when you have time. Take care, -Gatton

01-12-2005, 12:20 AM	#32
hacker Technology Mercenary Posts: 617 Karma: 2561 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: East Lyme, CT Device: Direct Neural Implant	To keep the drool flowing, here are some examples of works I have created over the last month or so.. "quick hits". There are a lot more coming, so stay tuned for a busy 1Q2005! Many of these are tests of a new set of tools I'm building to handle these kinds of works, in conjunction with human eyes and editing. I have a big surprise to launch soon, if all goes well over the next month or so. Take a look and give me your feedback. Anti-aliased fonts in Plucker: http://code.plkr.org/aa/ Creating XPCOM Components http://code.plkr.org/xpcom/ Version Control with Subversion http://code.plkr.org/svn/ mobileQuote http://code.plkr.org/mq/ dictoPlucker (this needs a new name, suggestions?) http://code.plkr.org/dp/ There are many other projects of this quality that I'm working on as well. Its fun stuff, and I strongly believe in it. I hope my efforts aren't wasted.

01-14-2005, 08:59 PM	#33
lasseelady Banned Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2005	Hello there, Would you mind helping me out here? I have e-books on my website, www.markraney.com. At present, the short stories I have on my website are in MS Word. I have talked with Bob here at MobileRead and he advises that a good format to use would be isilo found at www.isilo.com . My question is, since I am not a web designer and have no idea how this works, could you tell me - how does this program work? Do I need to go in and convert all my stories to this format individually or can a person viewing my site go to a link - sort of like adobe and download with that, I hate to be so dumb but this is out of my league but I must find out. Lasseelady MarkRaney.com markraney@markraney.com

01-15-2005, 03:31 AM	#34
Team7 Zealot Posts: 102 Karma: 257 Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Greencastle IN Device: Toshiba e755,Samsung i730	Last time I used it it worked like this. You save the webpage as an html file. Then you can just open isilo and select that saved html file and it will convert it to an isilo file for you. Anyone who axeses your webpage can do this so there is no need for you to do it.

07-07-2006, 10:24 AM	#35
Rainer Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2006 Device: ngage qd (s60 vers. 1)	hi is there any wikipedia conversion for s60 devices? i know there is a german wikipedia conversion for mobipocket, can you remake such conversion, only in english? (i dont undersand german!) thanks

07-13-2006, 09:11 AM	#36
Rainer Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2006 Device: ngage qd (s60 vers. 1)	hi is there a way to make a template in isilo so i can store just 1 template AND the data instead of thousands of similar .html pages? (e.g. imdb or wikipedia sites...) thank u

07-28-2006, 05:41 AM	#37
Rainer Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2006 Device: ngage qd (s60 vers. 1)	hi i dont have a clue on how compression settings/options work in compressing a website into isilo format. ive tried compressing reference sites and information is accessible but contains also alot of junk html formatting/tables/adverting that i want to eliminate from my archive. are there some pre-made settings or scripts that i can run to automatically convert large websites into isilo? thx

10-28-2006, 01:42 PM	#38
Cthulhu Technologist Posts: 488 Karma: 585237 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: I'm between Cities Device: SONY Reader PRS-500	Hi all. So this may have been covered in many other threads, and if so I apologise: Is there a market for legally licenses privately/personally requested etext? If there is, I'd love to know about it and whom I need to bug or bribe to have a private party (like hacker) OCR or whatever texts that are not currently available. Sadly, I imagine that will all the hullabaloo regarding DRM--& I fully understand their intent, but disagree with implementation--precludes this possibility.