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Originally Posted by Manabi
I wish they would leave past ones up but disable the purchase links for the freebie & discounted bundles. Been a couple of times I really wanted to get the summary off those pages when adding my book to Calibre, but they'd already been taken down.  |
StoryBundle does provide this service in its
archive.
Personally, I always download a copy of the book description page when I download, from whatever supplier, and I archive it. You can also go to another current supplier. But also, if you like the original, the Wayback Machine can sometimes be your friend. Actually, I suspect the more you use it and the more friendly it is (
David Brin must have some influence, after all). See for example
http://web.archive.org/web/201311080....bookbale.com/.
What I find hard to get sometimes is a nice high-resolution cover. I expect screen size and screen resolution of ereaders to increase in the future (not to mention existing pads). While covers and books illustrations, when any, can be adequate for ereaders today, I do not expect them to remain adequate on future hardware. Of course this also goes for illustrations found inside the story, either in the original magazine publication, or in some of the nicer old editions.
Finding nice illustrations on the web, with enough resolution, may require some ingenuity. Then there is also an issue of illustration copyright. But dealing with it properly seems nearly hopeless.
Then, some graphic artists are inspired by books, sometimes apparently just for the pleasure. For example, I have in mind illustrations for the works of Cordwainer Smith, both color and BW.
I wonder whether there is an application to easily insert and adapt images in an existing (EPUB) ebook, at some specified page. I know about cover insertion that can be done with Calibre.