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Originally Posted by Solicitous
Run your un-drm'd copies through Calibre and have it reconvert them (back into epubs). Somewhere there is obviously some tag that isn't liked, so in theory Calibre should fix the problem.
Worth a try, only take 5 min to convert and put on your reader.
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I just tried that. I used Calibre on both books, and in each case I did it on the original, unedited version (just with the DRM removed), and on the manually edited version, to see if that would make a difference.
Conclusion: Same results as before--
Sand and Stars, in both cases, loads without setting the date and time, doesn't load when they are set; and
Millennium, again in both cases, fails to load at all. Also, the Calibred version of the manually edited version of
Sand and Stars takes a few minutes to load (or not load); upon further research, each chapter is broken down into multiple splits--double, if not triple, digit splits. (The Calibred version of the unedited version doesn't have any files split, and
Millennium, in both instances, has exactly one file split--fm1.html in the original version(s). (I believe the "fm" in the file name stands for "front matter".)
I used the command line version of Calibre, without any special options, just the ebook-convert command, the infile name, and the outfile name; so I don't know for sure what specific changes were made or not made.
I just checked for the largest .html file in
Millenium: about 57KB, and its book 1, chapter 1. The progress bar goes most of the way to the right in every case before it fails to load.