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Originally Posted by astra_lestat
So far, I have encountered 3 types of books in html format.
1. Basic one. just one big HTML file, let's say 2M.
2. The same file but there is another folder that is called images and the HTML file in question has links to the image files in this folder.
3. Many HTML files. Book is devided into chapters or something like that. I think Baen does it this way as well.
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FBReader handles 1 and 2 very well. It does not work directly on multiple HTML files, but I think FBReader has this on its list of future upgrades. There are two workarounds: a) add an ".opf" file listing the .html files, or b) convert from multi-file HTML to a (single) Plucker file. Approach (b) is probably easier, although converting to an OEB document (approach (a)) is more flexible.
Note that for Baen books, you can download the MobiPocket version (which is the big advantage of multi-format e-books). MobiPocket books typically have relatively small images - so, if there are a lot of images in the e-book, it may be better to download the .lit version. FBReader does not read .lit directly, but it does with the help of ConvertLIT. If you access e-books via the ContentLister, then the iLiad can be configured to do the ConvertLIT/FBReader combination for you (on DRM-free .lit files only). I prefer to use FBReader's internal file navigation, so I "explode" the .lit version (using ConvertLIT) on my PC to get an OEB book (with a .opf file) which I then zip together and rename from .zip to .oebzip. The .oebzip file is recognized by FBReader as an OEB e-book. This same approach will work if you manually add an .opf file to a multi-file html e-book.