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Old 09-06-2009, 09:45 AM   #324
nrapallo
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I must take a closer look at GuteBook, Nick.
That sounds great and I'm glad you may find it useful. If you need any help getting started/oriented, post here, post in the GuteBook thread, or just PM me.

GuteBook is still evolving as I convert more and more PG ebooks, but the ebooks with Etext-No. greater than 10,000 work better as the HTML produced is more consistent and convertible to ebooks. The Etext-No.'s below 3,000 should not even be attempted...

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We were both lucky, in that this was a nice, clean text.
You've added more pictures than I have. However, my version of the Appendix on Whaling has a clearer diagram of the types of whales, and I replaced the ditto marks in the list of whale-oil prices with text. But GuteBook seems to handle the bulk of the text very well.
All the illustrations were linked from the List of Illustrations, but were never part of the ebook, in that way. That works for browsers, but not for ebook creation programs. My initial GuteBook ebooks crashed or didn't display them until I explicity included them in the HTML source (at the end). I just copied the HTML code and performed some RegEx's and got all the images with their caption below without re-typing (that's why I included more of them). Then I again used a RegEx to insert the hyperlink names back to the List of Illustrations.

I did notice that those ditto marks ("" "") didn't translate well into the eboks as well as that Whaling chart, but didn't think of your solution. It now looks very nice WITH your corrections, thanks for the advice. BTW, I did notice that your Whaling chart had some jpeg artifacting so I used a .gif instead for my version. Crisp and clean without artifacting!

Do you mind if I upload my versions to your ebook posting for comparison purposes; otherwise I can post them ALL in my GuteBook thread?

Also, with GuteBook, I create .lit and .pdb (ereader) versions but have no way of testing them on hardware/software readers and would like to see the members' reactions to same.
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