Questions about tweaking The Lost Symbol

ficbot · 09-22-2009, 10:32 PM

I got this for $9.99 at 100% micropay from Fictionwise and am not sure what to do with it. I ran mu usual ereader liberator on it, and was about to tidy up the HTML (a laborious process but generally necessary) when I saw it had images. So I imported it to Calibre as is, and the resulting 'book' is about 1000 pages. Surely that can't be right?

So, are the images vital? Because it they are not, I can strip down the HTML and remove the extraneous line breaks. I'll get plain, but clean text. If they are, then the book will have to stay as is and be 1000 pages, and that seems a little unreasonable

Advice?

rcuadro · 09-24-2009, 03:00 PM

The images, while not vital, they do play a role in the story. There are a lot of references to symbols throughout the book and I think that you will loose out on the story by taking them out.

Patricia · 09-24-2009, 06:45 PM

It is 462 pages in the print edition. So 1000 pages on the reader seems quite accurate to me.

Mnementh · 09-24-2009, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Patricia

It is 462 pages in the print edition. So 1000 pages on the reader seems quite accurate to me.

Plus there is also an extra line break/carriage return after every paragraph which even Calibre doesn't remove so that adds to the size.

It looks like this.

It's really quite annoying.

Because you fit less on the page and therefore have to turn it more often.

09-22-2009, 10:32 PM	#1
ficbot Wizard Posts: 2,409 Karma: 4132096 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Kindle Paperwhite/iOS Kindle App	Questions about tweaking The Lost Symbol I got this for $9.99 at 100% micropay from Fictionwise and am not sure what to do with it. I ran mu usual ereader liberator on it, and was about to tidy up the HTML (a laborious process but generally necessary) when I saw it had images. So I imported it to Calibre as is, and the resulting 'book' is about 1000 pages. Surely that can't be right? So, are the images vital? Because it they are not, I can strip down the HTML and remove the extraneous line breaks. I'll get plain, but clean text. If they are, then the book will have to stay as is and be 1000 pages, and that seems a little unreasonable Advice?

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09-24-2009, 03:00 PM	#2
rcuadro Wizard Posts: 1,686 Karma: 874275 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Virginia Beach, VA Device: Kindle DX	The images, while not vital, they do play a role in the story. There are a lot of references to symbols throughout the book and I think that you will loose out on the story by taking them out.

09-24-2009, 06:45 PM	#3
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	It is 462 pages in the print edition. So 1000 pages on the reader seems quite accurate to me.

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