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Forum: Android Devices 01-31-2014, 11:37 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 2,465
Posted By SamL
Loading eBooks to Google Play Issue

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this thread, but I didn't see anything on Google Play reading anywhere else.

Has anyone had any issues loading books to Google Play?

The started...
Forum: Apple Devices 01-09-2014, 01:20 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,661
Posted By SamL
Thank You! :thumbsup: I tried turning off...

Thank You! :thumbsup:

I tried turning off "Use LCD font smoothing when available" and the fonts now appear crisp and clean! Seems kind of backwards to me that they look better when that feature is...
Forum: Apple Devices 01-07-2014, 10:34 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,661
Posted By SamL
iBooks on Mavericks with non-retina display

When I view books on a non-retina macbook-pro running Mavericks, the fonts appear a little fuzzy. I believe this is because ibooks is pretty much optimized for retina displays, the same book looks...
Forum: ePub 12-21-2011, 08:03 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,647
Posted By SamL
images stretching on iPad epubs

This is a weird problem that I haven't run in before. I usually use images for my title headers. For the book I'm working on I applied a simple style to align them right. So this is what my CSS and...
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-19-2011, 10:47 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 5,027
Posted By SamL
you are correct

you are correct
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-19-2011, 02:07 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 5,027
Posted By SamL
This is just a thought for developers. Do...

This is just a thought for developers.

Do you think they will change the 70/30 royalty rates on KF8 books. For anyone who isn't familiar, right now if you sell an ebook on Amazon for between $.01...
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-18-2011, 07:26 PM
Replies: 311
Views: 39,574
Posted By SamL
I'm at about a 7.5 out of 10. For the price, its...

I'm at about a 7.5 out of 10. For the price, its a great deal. I'm just a bit disappointed with the cloud storage being no more then just online storage. I totality thought it would connect with my...
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-18-2011, 06:35 PM
Replies: 152
Views: 53,849
Posted By SamL
Thats what I did. This was only so I could get my...

Thats what I did. This was only so I could get my books to show up under "books" as opposed to "docs" when I loaded them on to my Fire. Other people were having luck with just taking the [pdoc] tag...
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-18-2011, 04:40 PM
Replies: 152
Views: 53,849
Posted By SamL
Oh I see what your saying now. Yes I have that...

Oh I see what your saying now. Yes I have that issue too, if I eject and reconnect, Calibre does not see my books on my device.
Forum: Devices 11-18-2011, 04:39 PM
Replies: 95
Views: 52,752
Posted By SamL
Yes I noticed the same thing. Once I eject my...

Yes I noticed the same thing. Once I eject my device (Fire) and reconnect it, Calibre does not recognize that any books are on the device.
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-18-2011, 04:38 PM
Replies: 152
Views: 53,849
Posted By SamL
Sweet! I got it working. Instead of just taking...

Sweet! I got it working. Instead of just taking out [PDOC] I changed it to [EBOK] and it did the trick. Someone mentioned this in the thread gweminence linked above.





Calibre seem to...
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-18-2011, 04:18 PM
Replies: 152
Views: 53,849
Posted By SamL
Ah I should probably update Calibre, that could...

Ah I should probably update Calibre, that could very well be my issue
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-18-2011, 04:17 PM
Replies: 152
Views: 53,849
Posted By SamL
I just tried importing a new epub in to Calibre,...

I just tried importing a new epub in to Calibre, converting it to MOBI (made sure that [pdoc] tag was left out) saved it to my desktop and sideloaded it to my kindle. Still showing up in docs, weird....
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-18-2011, 04:07 PM
Replies: 152
Views: 53,849
Posted By SamL
I removed the original copy I put on the Fire....

I removed the original copy I put on the Fire. But I still have my epubs/mobis in Calibre.

So what I'm doing is converting them to MOBI (even though they technically already are that format) but...
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-18-2011, 03:55 PM
Replies: 152
Views: 53,849
Posted By SamL
I did, but I can't really tell if it worked I...

I did, but I can't really tell if it worked I guess because they look they same, and are still showing up in my docs.
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-18-2011, 03:42 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 5,308
Posted By SamL
Not to mention I uploaded like 800 photos to my...

Not to mention I uploaded like 800 photos to my cloud, thinking I could put them on my Fire. I tried to download them to my work computer so I could transfer them via USB, but you can not download...
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-18-2011, 03:31 PM
Replies: 152
Views: 53,849
Posted By SamL
Even after I convert my books to MOBI in Calibre...

Even after I convert my books to MOBI in Calibre and take out the [PDOC] tag, they still all show up in my docs as opposed to my books on the Fire. Is there a way to see in the mobi file if that...
Forum: ePub 11-17-2011, 03:13 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 2,662
Posted By SamL
try taking out the "<style type="text/css">" ...

try taking out the "<style type="text/css">"

I just checked one of my chapters, and my css is linked the same way, but I don't have the style type thing.

Also, in you epub, are the html files...
Forum: ePub 11-10-2011, 03:09 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,379
Posted By SamL
this is a pretty good resource regarding cover...

this is a pretty good resource regarding cover images

http://blog.threepress.org/2009/11/20/best-practices-in-epub-cover-images/
Forum: ePub 11-10-2011, 03:08 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 9,279
Posted By SamL
I know what your talking about, I use a reset.css...

I know what your talking about, I use a reset.css file for all my web pages. I haven't really seen the need for one in a epub.
Forum: ePub 11-10-2011, 02:46 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,929
Posted By SamL
I actually just found this blog this morning...

I actually just found this blog this morning where it mentions this problem and how to avoid it.

So incase anyone else runs in to this...
...
Forum: ePub 11-08-2011, 01:52 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,929
Posted By SamL
So I've also tried loading styles for each...

So I've also tried loading styles for each chapter, I get the same problem. InDesign seems to make a new style for every different chapter the style is used in, even though they are exactly the same....
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-08-2011, 01:49 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 4,501
Posted By SamL
Thanks Nate, so audio/video ebooks should pass...

Thanks Nate, so audio/video ebooks should pass validation in the kindle store?
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-07-2011, 06:32 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 4,501
Posted By SamL
you can put audio/video in epubs, its just a...

you can put audio/video in epubs, its just a matter of whether the device you are viewing them on supports HTML5. The Apple store is the only store I'm aware of that accepts epubs with the...
Forum: Kindle Fire 11-07-2011, 03:37 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 4,501
Posted By SamL
Supported Kindle 8 HTML 5 tags

I was crossing my fingers for audio/video, but it doesn't look like they made the cut.
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