New Cory Doctorow non-fiction book - Page 2

JSWolf · 10-11-2008, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master

I posted a mini-review of the book, as well as a link to the PML source file, at

http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/10...-book-content/

I just tried to convert your PDB using Book Designer. it did not work. is there any chance you could post a copy in say HTML or RTF that has all the markup integrated?

Robotech_Master · 10-16-2008, 09:30 PM

I'm afraid there's nothing else I can do. It's not a question of saving "as" something else; I created the source file from scratch and then fed it through dropbook. If you can do something with either source or compiled version, be my guest, but I can't help you beyond that.

I imagine you could take the source and search and replace the PML into HTML, but you'd have to do that yourself.

JSWolf · 10-17-2008, 08:12 PM

Can you save it from Dropbook in a way that Book Designer can read it?

Can you add DRM to it so eReader2HTML.py will work?

nrapallo · 10-17-2008, 09:52 PM

Two versions of the book in .html are now available here; one version from the ereader .pdb copy and another from Robotech_Master's .pml copy.

Robotech_Master · 10-17-2008, 10:20 PM

I notice that the indentations on the hierarchical outlines in the "meta" section are absent, at least in the latter. That kind of seriously breaks the point of that section.

nrapallo · 10-17-2008, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master

I notice that the indentations on the hierarchical outlines in the "meta" section are absent, at least in the latter. That kind of seriously breaks the point of that section.

Sorry, but this was an automated conversion from .pml to .html (which may not have understood the indentation structure you had specified).

Do you have a side-by-side comparison image showing the faulty indentation? were tabs used?

Otherwise, any hand tweaking is left as an excerise to the reader...

koland · 10-18-2008, 04:13 PM

Here's a corrected mobi (prc) version. I modified the html by correcting the name of the Heinlein story ("The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" instead of "The Man Who Sold the Moon" ) and added the missing info from the first paragraph under Facebook's Faceplant. This contains both the original TOC and one generated at the end (the generated TOC is easier to get to with mobi reader or the kindle).

Robotech_Master · 10-21-2008, 09:44 PM

There were a number of little grammatical corrections sprinkled through the book that I did. I didn't really keep track of them, just caught them as I saw them.

10-16-2008, 09:30 PM	#17
Robotech_Master Fanatic Posts: 514 Karma: 2954711 Join Date: May 2006	I'm afraid there's nothing else I can do. It's not a question of saving "as" something else; I created the source file from scratch and then fed it through dropbook. If you can do something with either source or compiled version, be my guest, but I can't help you beyond that. I imagine you could take the source and search and replace the PML into HTML, but you'd have to do that yourself. Last edited by Robotech_Master; 10-16-2008 at 09:33 PM.

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JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 73,987 Karma: 128903378 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Can you save it from Dropbook in a way that Book Designer can read it? Can you add DRM to it so eReader2HTML.py will work?

10-17-2008, 09:52 PM	#19
nrapallo GuteBook/Mobi2IMP Creator Posts: 2,958 Karma: 2530691 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Toronto, Canada Device: REB1200 EBW1150 Device: T1 NSTG iLiad_v2 NC Device: Asus_TF Next1 WPDN	Two versions of the book in .html are now available here; one version from the ereader .pdb copy and another from Robotech_Master's .pml copy.

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Robotech_Master Fanatic Posts: 514 Karma: 2954711 Join Date: May 2006	I notice that the indentations on the hierarchical outlines in the "meta" section are absent, at least in the latter. That kind of seriously breaks the point of that section.

10-21-2008, 09:44 PM	#23
Robotech_Master Fanatic Posts: 514 Karma: 2954711 Join Date: May 2006	There were a number of little grammatical corrections sprinkled through the book that I did. I didn't really keep track of them, just caught them as I saw them.

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