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Originally Posted by Nate the great
That's something that can be automated. We already have a download guide in Mobipocket that is generated automatically.
But it's not worth Alex's time to make one for the Ebw-1150 until we know that it will work.
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Nate:
I mentioned this in my previous post, without seeing your repsonse here. Good to see you are 'already in the know'. We know we need this 'proof-of-concept' first, and we are working on it.
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Also, he will need two things. What is the largest file size that the 1150 can handle comfortably? Is there a Linux command line tool for generating IMP ebooks? (got a link?)
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In the meantime, I'll get you started!
The EBW1150 maxes out its internal memory when many links/styles/images/etc. exist in the ebook. Size and complexity seem to go hand-in-hand. I'll guess that that size limit is under 10 MB, but over 5MB. The REB1200 can surpass that by a lot. It may max out at 30MB and can surely handle most ebooks over 10MB. It has more available memory onboard and its all available for data.
Why do you need to generate those .imp in linux? They already have been uploaded to the IMP ebooks upload forum (and actually are already in that 'mobi' directory used by the Mobipocket Download Guide
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If you want to generate .imp ebooks 'on-the-fly' from .html files, then my perl scripts for manipulating .imp ebooks will do the trick in linux. It's a sticky in the Fictionwise forum.
Whatever you need most definitely is available here already; one way or another I've made sure of that!. Ask me for anything you
need to do.
My original idea was to use an 'IMP Download Guide' that Alex could format in html for our use and then 'wget' or 'get in perl using LWP' the requested file using Linreb. For a great reference, see
Web Basics with LWP - Sample Recipes for Common Tasks by Sean M. Burke - author of Perl & LWP (August 20, 2002).
This should be easy enough to set up, but requires Alex's help formatting the listing and the EBW1150 in sending out those HTTP requests to the proxy server. We seem to be close, but are not there yet!
Stay tuned...