Thread: Glo + Shelves + different formats
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Old 08-24-2014, 03:24 AM   #14
davidfor
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Originally Posted by FencepostErr1r View Post
Why have a backup parachute if you have packed your main one well enough?

I should've described the kind of problem that happened to me before asking for a belt and suspenders solution.

The affected ePubs can not be recognised immediately, because they render just fine. The flaw they have usually shows up at the end of the first chapter.
Something about how the chapter-breaks are set up makes whole sections and sometimes most of the remaining chapters disappear.

This is frustrating as hell - you get sucked into a story and with the next page turn you find that you suddenly skipped forty pages.

Those ePubs are displayed just fine in Calibre. I like my Glo, I can't go use a Kindle again because I need backlighting.

I found that performing a ePub conversion in Calibre fixes this.
I'm a bit apprehensive of just carpet-bombing my library with ePub conversions, because that could lead to other problems.
I've seen problems like that. Generally, I have found it to be incorrect nesting of tags. A conversion usually fixes it, but, it can mean some loss of formatting. The calibre viewer is more forgiving of these sort of errors, but again, some formatting might be lost. Instead of a conversion, try opening it in the editor and use check book to find errors. Hopefully it will be obvious and easy to fix.

As to loading both versions on the Glo, I don't have a better solution than what I suggested.
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