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Snauzoo · 07-06-2011, 06:41 PM

One, I have a book that had a black bar in the text that replaced every apostrophe and quote marks. Not sure if the original had a single quote mark like 'this' instead of "this" - when I looked at this book in ADE, the black marks appeared as ? marks. Question marks, that is. I cannot see a way to fix this since if I do a search/replace it will remove the ? marks from real questions. I used smarten punctuation in my conversion to no avail.

ETA: I have located an uncoverted .zip form of this particular book, and am willing to give it a whirl to figure this out. It turns out it is not just apostrophes that have gone bad, but a lot of what is called soft hyphens.

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Two, this is an ipad question. When I have a book with two authors in Calibre, such as Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, they are entered in the author field as Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. When I add these to iTunes, the ampersand gets changed to &amp or something equally wierd. How can I fix this ? I have ten books by them, plus a bunch of cookbooks with multiple authors and I have had to edit each individually.

Thanks in advance. My library project is coming along well. Just added about 40 books to the NOOK! And many more to the iPad.

07-06-2011, 06:41 PM	#1
Snauzoo Enthusiast Posts: 31 Karma: 282 Join Date: May 2010 Device: iPad	Two format (text) questions One, I have a book that had a black bar in the text that replaced every apostrophe and quote marks. Not sure if the original had a single quote mark like 'this' instead of "this" - when I looked at this book in ADE, the black marks appeared as ? marks. Question marks, that is. I cannot see a way to fix this since if I do a search/replace it will remove the ? marks from real questions. I used smarten punctuation in my conversion to no avail. ETA: I have located an uncoverted .zip form of this particular book, and am willing to give it a whirl to figure this out. It turns out it is not just apostrophes that have gone bad, but a lot of what is called soft hyphens. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two, this is an ipad question. When I have a book with two authors in Calibre, such as Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, they are entered in the author field as Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. When I add these to iTunes, the ampersand gets changed to &amp or something equally wierd. How can I fix this ? I have ten books by them, plus a bunch of cookbooks with multiple authors and I have had to edit each individually. Thanks in advance. My library project is coming along well. Just added about 40 books to the NOOK! And many more to the iPad. Last edited by Snauzoo; 07-06-2011 at 07:43 PM.