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deadgloves · 05-12-2011, 03:34 AM

I just wanted to post a note for anyone experience a Page Error like me. I didn't find any fixes referring to this online and so had to trouble shoot it myself.

I received a "Page Error" message on my sony 650 when opening some free books I recently downloaded. The first few pages load then the book crashes and I have to hit the "home" button. The books in question were in zip or mobi format and were converted to EPub by Calibre. Turned out it was caused by SVG images in the books. Sony can't read the SVG format and once it reaches the relevant page, the book crashes! I was able to remove the images by exploding the EPubs in Calibre, and removing the references to SVG files.

I hope this helps anyone else who comes across this problem. Maybe Calibre should check for svg references and remove them (just a thought) when making EPubs for Sony Devices.

05-12-2011, 03:34 AM	#1
deadgloves Enthusiast Posts: 42 Karma: 2634 Join Date: May 2010 Device: PRS650	'Page Error' on some books I just wanted to post a note for anyone experience a Page Error like me. I didn't find any fixes referring to this online and so had to trouble shoot it myself. I received a "Page Error" message on my sony 650 when opening some free books I recently downloaded. The first few pages load then the book crashes and I have to hit the "home" button. The books in question were in zip or mobi format and were converted to EPub by Calibre. Turned out it was caused by SVG images in the books. Sony can't read the SVG format and once it reaches the relevant page, the book crashes! I was able to remove the images by exploding the EPubs in Calibre, and removing the references to SVG files. I hope this helps anyone else who comes across this problem. Maybe Calibre should check for svg references and remove them (just a thought) when making EPubs for Sony Devices.