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Originally Posted by rjnagle
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Most of them don't want to do this - after all, Wifi devices usually are bound to a shop, and you're supposed to use the shop, and not some other site.
I've just downloaded a book from m.gutenberg.org (Sherlock Holmes epub) on my Story HD, using my WebPortal mod (by default the reader has only the shop, and the browser doesn't download books from other site).
Unfortunately even with the mod it does not work particularly well. This is mainly because that site sucks. While it may be targeting mobile devices, it's certainly not targeting eink screens (what with javascript smooth autoscroll effects); the input search field for some reason does not work (although it worked so far for me on all other sites - it works fine in the non-mobile version too). And what's worst, the epubs you download aren't named properly; the Sherlock Holmes epub ended up being 'pg1661.epub'. Testing on the PC with Firefox, it suggests the same name.
That's suboptimal, but not the fault of the reader, it's the site itself. I'd have to adapt my WebPortal mod to unzip this epub, look at the metadata, in order to be able to give the file a proper name -
- basically what Calibre does when you do this on the PC...