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shousa · 02-09-2008, 02:47 AM

I would like some people reading this to verify this finding.

I have found now MANY "Microsoft Reader" .LIT ebooks have errors.

Actually they are not errors in Microsoft Reader but will be if converted using Libprs500.

First off, explode the .LIT.

The error can be seen if loading the biggest.html in Firefox. While your "Chapter" links will work your "Notes" links will not. Clicking any "Note" in the main text will take you to a single page .html (I call this the "smallest" .html generally 3KB in size) rather than the List of Notes area in "biggest" .html. Check this by exploding the .LIT and loading the biggest .html.

How to distinguish at a glance which have errors and which do not
(based on my ebooks):
1) If you explode the .LIT there will be FIVE .html files (include .htm in the calc) instead of FOUR.
2) These will be likely non-fiction books with many "Notes", all my fiction books are fine.

How to fix:
- found that all links (I mean 100%) referred to a .html called XXXsmallest.html when it should have been XXXbiggest.html. So clicking on the links (for notes) in the html always came back to the xxxsmallest.html which is a single page .html.
- i used a find and replace in wordpad to change all the xxxsmallest.html links to xxxbiggest.html (editing only the xxxbiggest.html) and now all the links 100%work.

eg. find "smallest" and replace with "biggest"

Convert to Sony Reader using the following DOS commandline:
C:\progra~1\libprs~1\html2lrf --use-spine --left-margin=0 --right-margin=0 --top-margin=0 --bottom-margin=0 --base-font-size=10 --wordspace=1 c:\1\xxxbiggest.html

Check in LRF Viewer - all links work - sweet!!

Anyone else find this?

02-09-2008, 02:47 AM	#1
shousa Groupie Posts: 181 Karma: 232 Join Date: May 2006	Perhaps this will surprise you! I would like some people reading this to verify this finding. I have found now MANY "Microsoft Reader" .LIT ebooks have errors. Actually they are not errors in Microsoft Reader but will be if converted using Libprs500. First off, explode the .LIT. The error can be seen if loading the biggest.html in Firefox. While your "Chapter" links will work your "Notes" links will not. Clicking any "Note" in the main text will take you to a single page .html (I call this the "smallest" .html generally 3KB in size) rather than the List of Notes area in "biggest" .html. Check this by exploding the .LIT and loading the biggest .html. How to distinguish at a glance which have errors and which do not (based on my ebooks): 1) If you explode the .LIT there will be FIVE .html files (include .htm in the calc) instead of FOUR. 2) These will be likely non-fiction books with many "Notes", all my fiction books are fine. How to fix: - found that all links (I mean 100%) referred to a .html called XXXsmallest.html when it should have been XXXbiggest.html. So clicking on the links (for notes) in the html always came back to the xxxsmallest.html which is a single page .html. - i used a find and replace in wordpad to change all the xxxsmallest.html links to xxxbiggest.html (editing only the xxxbiggest.html) and now all the links 100%work. eg. find "smallest" and replace with "biggest" Convert to Sony Reader using the following DOS commandline: C:\progra~1\libprs~1\html2lrf --use-spine --left-margin=0 --right-margin=0 --top-margin=0 --bottom-margin=0 --base-font-size=10 --wordspace=1 c:\1\xxxbiggest.html Check in LRF Viewer - all links work - sweet!! Anyone else find this? Last edited by shousa; 02-09-2008 at 09:13 AM.