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pholy · 05-25-2010, 11:35 PM

I have had a similar problem with a couple of books. I found that when I unzipped them, they had a huge .css file. When I opened that I found thousands of classes defined, mostly identical. It was a pretty bad conversion, and not much I could do. (except try a different brand of reader...) A 13MB epub is pretty huge, it may have a lot of pictures or embedded fonts. (It should not be a malformed epub file, but it is possible.) I'm not sure exactly what makes it choke.

The files I looked at did not have DRM, of course, or I couldn't have looked at them. I think they were from BooksOnBoard, but I'm not sure.

05-25-2010, 11:35 PM	#2
pholy Booklegger Posts: 1,801 Karma: 7999816 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Device: BeBook(1 & 2010), PEZ, PRS-505, Kobo BT, PRS-T1, Playbook, Kobo Touch	I have had a similar problem with a couple of books. I found that when I unzipped them, they had a huge .css file. When I opened that I found thousands of classes defined, mostly identical. It was a pretty bad conversion, and not much I could do. (except try a different brand of reader...) A 13MB epub is pretty huge, it may have a lot of pictures or embedded fonts. (It should not be a malformed epub file, but it is possible.) I'm not sure exactly what makes it choke. The files I looked at did not have DRM, of course, or I couldn't have looked at them. I think they were from BooksOnBoard, but I'm not sure.