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Originally Posted by EditorOne
Hey, Guys,
Just when I thought it was getting better . . . Well, you know . . .
Never did really solve the issue of my epubs not working on my Nook or in ADE in terms of the layout. It's interesting, that the same epub (created on Sigil) that will convert to mobi or azw via KindlePreviewer will turn out perfect on Kindle devices, won't work on an epub device.
Checked for missing semicolons and other issues in my stylesheet, but as a newbie, I'm sure there are things I haven't quite figured out. But even with all the semi-colons in their proper place, still no dice.
Tried something new: I took my mobi file (created by KindlePreviewer/KindleGen) and went to www.online-convert.com. Converted it from mobi to epub. Guess what! When I put it on my Nook device, it was perfect!!!
So far, so good, right? But no, let's throw in the next issue.
I had to go back through the epub file--which was lovely and the stylesheet only had a handful of Calibre codes (unlike the conversion done on Calibre, which had almost 200!!--I know, I know . . . I still don't know how to produce a clean file with a clean stylesheet . . .). I needed to do some typo repairs and spacing repairs, etc., with Sigil. When I did the check with Sigil, I got the following message (for EVERY h2 in the document): attribute 'data-AmznRemoved' is not declared for element 'h2'. I had seen this in the code view, but didn't know what to make of it.
I am removing all of those elements from the code and will probably do the same procedure (convert to mobi via KPreviewer, followed by convert to epub via the online converter) to see what happens next.
Any ideas??? (anybody know where I can buy a stylesheet that fits my client's very complicated layout???) |
With all due respect, are you being paid to produce this book?
You refer to "my client" and a complicated layout. Are you charging this person to "convert" a book with Calibre that you can't get to work on a Nook? I mean...of all the e-readers, Nook is probably the easiest to get to work. And with all due respect to Liz--whom I know, and whose book I recommend frequently--that was then and this is now. Nook does not override any legitimate styles.
Your "not found" error is because you split a section, have a reference somewhere else to that formerly-split chapter, and didn't clean it up (the references) when you re-merged them.
And I don't think I can speak adequately to the idea of creating a mobi first, and then creating an ePUB, again, using Calibre, from a converted mobi. I suppose that there are some people who would do this, but this is utterly and completely backwards. And if you are charging someone to do ebook conversion work, you most certainly should not be using Calibre to do it. And if you don't know what the errata are in your classes....
I don't mean to sound like I must sound, but as a commercial eBookmaker, this is the type of stuff that gives me the willies. This is the type of ebook that shows up at my shop later with someone asking for changes to what is (let's say, in another case), a giant steaming pile of you-know-what. Of more importance to me, the unhappy author/publisher starts telling stories about how "all" ebook-makers are inept or worse, ripping them off.
I can tell you without any hesitation whatsoever that even my most
rudimentary stylesheets, when I started out--even those that have what I would now consider errors (y'know, setting font sizes in points, say, rather than ems, back in '08 or so),
were never overriden by Nook. I know because I used to buy and download the books to my Nook, when I was starting out. I don't know what you are doing that's screwing up your files, but now you're using "online-convert.com?"
Did you get stuck with this book somehow? Did you make the print edition, and now your client is insisting you make the digital version? ???? I know your "title" says, "just learnin'," but can you clarify your situation?
Hitch