Converted books have slow pages.

Vulture051 · 01-26-2023, 10:30 AM

As the title says. I've developed a sort of hobby of copy&pasting stories off fanfic *cough* and smut *cough* sites into LibreOffice and using calibre to make them into proper ebooks with covers.
My problem is the pages in these converted books take 4-5 seconds to turn. How do I fix this?

* Was suggested I use DOCX's instead of RTF's as the original file but that's worse, every other page hangs for 10+ seconds.

* RTFs read straight work fine other that having to crank the font size up drastically in the reader because it's tiny for some reason. (If you know how to stop this, that would also be helpful)

* Epubs that were always epubs work fine.

* Epubs that I make a cover for and "convert" to epub also work fine.

kovidgoyal · 01-26-2023, 10:46 AM

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=186697

Quoth · 01-26-2023, 01:11 PM

Edit & save work as odt.
Do an extra Save As in docx for Calibre.

Make sure no direct formatting, only styles (though if not purist/pedantic you can use inline direct formatting for part of a line italic, bold or bold-italic, but never anything else, well maybe super & subscript, but those are best avoided except for text books).

01-26-2023, 10:30 AM	#1
Vulture051 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2023 Device: Kobo Clara	Converted books have slow pages. As the title says. I've developed a sort of hobby of copy&pasting stories off fanfic *cough* and smut *cough* sites into LibreOffice and using calibre to make them into proper ebooks with covers. My problem is the pages in these converted books take 4-5 seconds to turn. How do I fix this? * Was suggested I use DOCX's instead of RTF's as the original file but that's worse, every other page hangs for 10+ seconds. * RTFs read straight work fine other that having to crank the font size up drastically in the reader because it's tiny for some reason. (If you know how to stop this, that would also be helpful) * Epubs that were always epubs work fine. * Epubs that I make a cover for and "convert" to epub also work fine.

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01-26-2023, 10:46 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,359 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=186697

01-26-2023, 01:11 PM	#3
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,048 Karma: 105092227 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Edit & save work as odt. Do an extra Save As in docx for Calibre. Make sure no direct formatting, only styles (though if not purist/pedantic you can use inline direct formatting for part of a line italic, bold or bold-italic, but never anything else, well maybe super & subscript, but those are best avoided except for text books).

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