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DJHARKAVY · 03-15-2010, 12:11 PM

I had a 12 meg copy of The Day The Universe Changed by James Burke. It opened fine as an eReader (pdb) file, but would not show the pictures on the JBL.

Using Calibre, I converted it to an ePub and got the file too large notice.

I changed it to an .fb2 file and it opened fine.

I also tried extracting the files inside the ePub wrapper and working with them. Opening the ePub archive with 7-Zip, I found that there were 5 book files; book0 to book4. Each file was able to be opened in a web browser, and by looking at the pictures to be inserted on the first page or two, I was able to tell what pages were in each file.

I then set up 5 directory (Universe1 through Universe5) and copied all the files into each. I deleted the unneccessary graphics from each folder and all but one of the book files from each folder.

Then I had Calibre load each directory separately as a book. After changing the names, I had 5 .zip files in Calibre Named Part x-The Day The Universe Changed with the appropriate cover icon.

These files could then easily be converted into ePub files with all the right metadata and pagination information. They loaded easily into my JBL, and all show the appropriate pictures on the page.

There is probably a quicker way to do this, but it worked.

03-15-2010, 12:11 PM	#4
DJHARKAVY Addict Posts: 280 Karma: 13444 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Blackberry, jetbook lite	I had a 12 meg copy of The Day The Universe Changed by James Burke. It opened fine as an eReader (pdb) file, but would not show the pictures on the JBL. Using Calibre, I converted it to an ePub and got the file too large notice. I changed it to an .fb2 file and it opened fine. I also tried extracting the files inside the ePub wrapper and working with them. Opening the ePub archive with 7-Zip, I found that there were 5 book files; book0 to book4. Each file was able to be opened in a web browser, and by looking at the pictures to be inserted on the first page or two, I was able to tell what pages were in each file. I then set up 5 directory (Universe1 through Universe5) and copied all the files into each. I deleted the unneccessary graphics from each folder and all but one of the book files from each folder. Then I had Calibre load each directory separately as a book. After changing the names, I had 5 .zip files in Calibre Named Part x-The Day The Universe Changed with the appropriate cover icon. These files could then easily be converted into ePub files with all the right metadata and pagination information. They loaded easily into my JBL, and all show the appropriate pictures on the page. There is probably a quicker way to do this, but it worked.