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I ran into another small thing, is there an easy way to highlight and copy text from a book? I can;t seem to figure out how to do this. Thanks Jim! |
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There is, however, a complex, kludgy way to do it. Put a bookmark somewhere on the text that you want to copy, then open that bookmark and tap the 'Fetch Book Text' button. This will extract a chunk of text (around 100 words AFAIR) surrounding the bookmark, and put it into the clipboard. You can then switch to another app and paste the text. |
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First I'd like to say that version 2 is a big improvement for reading Chinese ebooks, reflow works very well and I didn't need to force the "characters are words" setting for pages to display well.
I noticed a few issues in version 2 that existed in previous versions as well: 1) Numbered lists don't show numbering 2) Multi-level lists are all shown as one level 3) Inline images in text are shown as separate paragraphs In addition, when opening Chinese ebooks, I found that processing takes a fairly long time, about 2-3 times that needed for English ebooks (this is may be due to the font more than anything else). If I am switching between Chinese and English books then I would need to change the font by a large amount given that Chinese characters need larger font to be legible. Currently it re-processes the book each font+ or font- step. To make things faster, it would be nice for the font to have a selectable range (similar to that in version 1.1) and do processing once the new font is selected and confirmed. Last edited by mooxoo; 06-16-2010 at 03:19 AM. |
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If you have one bunch of settings you like for English books and another for Chinese, you could use the 'save preset' (on the Settings screen) to save them as presets (called 'English' and 'Chinese', maybe), and then you can bring those settings back just by loading the relevant preset. It's all on the 'Actions...' menu button on the 'Settings' screen. Thanks for the feedback. |
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In two ways:
1) It's not from Adobe 2) It's not a PDF reader ![]() But all facetiousness aside, (1) means that it's free software, not tied to any particular manufacturer (actually, it's open-source, meaning that I publish the source code, so anyone else is free to modify and re-publish it, subject to GPL2 conditions). And (2) means you can't read PDFs with it. Actually, I'd not recommend reading PDFs on mobile phones and suchlike (WinMo or WinCE) devices, because PDF documents don't generally work well on them, PDF layout being non-reflowable. My recommendation would be to use a converter (like Calibre) to convert your PDF into ePub, and then use an ePub reader (like Freda). If you've got further questions do please ask (post on this forum, or PM, or email to home@jim-chapman.net). Jim Last edited by Jim Chapman; 06-16-2010 at 04:07 PM. |
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Another thing I recently noticed is that in Chinese ebooks I often see paragraphs starting with two ideographic spaces (spaces the size of CJK characters, unicode U+3000) instead of using the default indent, and setting indent to 0. Freda seems to remove these spaces so paragraphs do not have the required indent.
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It is because PDF is such a popular and common format that I've created a reflowable PDF version of all of my free downloads. It's not my own first choice, but it does work okay. |
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![]() If you have the desire at all, I might request a more natural way to refresh (add new books and remove deleted ones) the library. Just a wish ![]() Quote:
![]() One future feature question (maybe Freda v5.0), would you ever consider adding the ability to correct/edit books and save the changes back into the ePub? |
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1) The WindowsForms UI framework does not make that sort of thing easy; 2) It would be incompatible with non-touch screens. And I'm trying keep the main part of the Freda code-base the same, across the 'touch' and 'non-touch' builds. The Windows Phone 7 version of Freda will certainly have a more intuitive UI for library and bookshelf management, because: 1) Silverlight makes this easy to do; 2) There is no 'non-touch' version of WP7. I don't yet know whether I will back-port that UI into the Windows Mobile 6.x (or earlier) version. To an extent, it will depend on whether WM6.x remains a 'live' platform, after WP7 devices hit the street. It seems unlikely. The 'phone' form factor is not great for word-processing, even simple word-processing ... and ePub-editing is really a pretty complex kind of word-processing. Last edited by Jim Chapman; 06-18-2010 at 05:22 AM. |
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Thanks Jim! I am not sure if this counts, but I have no intention of moving to Windows Phone 7. If I wanted an iPhone I would just buy one not move to a pale imitation with all the bad and none of the good.
![]() No problem on the library. Removing and adding the source has not caused another lock up as of yet so its working OK for me. I think once I can totally switch over to Calibre web access in Freda and stop using my SD card as an import path, it seems like this shouldn't be a problem any more. I guessed as much. Given the way the ePub has to be decompressed to be opened, I figured it was a longshot at best. Thanks Jim! Last edited by silkshadow; 06-21-2010 at 12:16 PM. |
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A bug, if I use Calibre .7x's native content server (instead of the opds generator app), none of the books are displayed.
I just got VPN finally working correctly on my HD2 and its sweet. Streaming my music and videos to my phone from anywhere without privacy slavery ![]() Authors displays fine but books are not displayed. Is it something I am doing wrong? A quick request when it comes to this as well. Could you support username/password support for accessign the calibre library? Thanks! Last edited by silkshadow; 06-23-2010 at 03:59 AM. |
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1) You may be able to get it by typing the catalog URL into an IE/Firefox/Safari explorer window, and then saving the source of the page that you get back. Or if you're familiar with curl, that would be ideal. 2) You give me the details I need, so I can access your content, and I try getting the catalog myself. You can email me, as ever, at home@jim-chapman.net. I didn't do this so far, because there are quite a few ways that different OPDS catalog providers might handle the passing of usernames and passwords, and it would therefore be something of a never-ending task to implement it. It is on the list. |
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I would be happy to give you access to my server, but we need to make arrangements because I kill and restart calibre frequently as part of its development process. I would be happy to post more pages if that will help. Also, freda does not remember the URL I type in the box. I must re-enter it from scratch each time. Freda 2.0 build 102, Calibre 0.7.4+, URL http://192.168.220.8:8080/opds |
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