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Old 04-20-2009, 08:27 AM   #76
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Because they are prettier than the cover of the "complete" version
Perhaps I misunderstood your original question. I understood it to mean if the trilogy included the 3 book covers which it doesn't.
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Old 04-20-2009, 08:27 AM   #77
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I doubt for the picture, mobi file use generaly reduced pictures.

No one have buyed a LIT/ePub version?
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Old 04-20-2009, 08:28 AM   #78
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I downloaded the sample for the combined trilogy from Amazon. There doesn't seem to be a Table of Contents. It would be hard to navigate the 3 books without one.
There is a Table of Contents in the purchased version of the trilogy that allows you to go from book to book.
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Old 04-20-2009, 08:31 AM   #79
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Sony now has all of these for sale (they did not when I checked last night):

LOTR $20.29, FOTR $13.49, TT $13.49, ROTK $13.49, Hobbit $8.99

I'm off to buy them now!
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Old 04-20-2009, 08:34 AM   #80
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The single volume Trilogy purchased from BoB as an ePub is working very nicely on my Sony Reader. Table of Contents is well implemented and works well. Single map of Shire is hard to read on Sony, and can't find the larger maps of Middle Earth or detailed map of Gondor. Fabulous to have it in eBook form.

Biggest downside is that ineptepub chokes on it. Anyone interested in working on this PM me.

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Old 04-20-2009, 08:46 AM   #81
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The single volume Trilogy purchased from BoB as an ePub is working very nicely on my Sony Reader. Table of Contents is well implemented and works well. Single map of Shire is hard to read on Sony, and can't find the larger maps of Middle Earth or detailed map of Gondor. Fabulous to have it in eBook form.

Biggest downside is that ineptepub chokes on it. Anyone interested in working on this PM me.

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I just download the Sony format from Sony. I like the formatting (generally far better than how epub renders on the Reader) but the map is still impossible to read.
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Old 04-20-2009, 08:48 AM   #82
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If you do buy from BooksOnBoard, get the ePub.
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Biggest downside is that ineptepub chokes on it. Anyone interested in working on this PM me.
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Hmm, then I'd rather buy a .lit and go the other way round (and convert to lrf). Or a mobipocket version from Fictionwise. I want this books for keeps and I don't want DRM on it in that case.
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Old 04-20-2009, 08:48 AM   #83
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By the way for thoses who have the combined eBooks, does the cover of the three books are present?
OK, that's one downside. The LOTR cover is poor.

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Old 04-20-2009, 08:56 AM   #84
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Biggest downside is that ineptepub chokes on it. Anyone interested in working on this PM me.

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I downloaded the single volume epub from Books On Board and didn't have any issues with converting it to LRF in calibre after using ineptepub.
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Old 04-20-2009, 09:01 AM   #85
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I downloaded the single volume epub from Books On Board and didn't have any issues with converting it to LRF in calibre after using ineptepub.

ineptepub worked fine for me too. Make sure your using v2.
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Old 04-20-2009, 09:26 AM   #86
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I've just bought "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" from Fictionwise in Mobipocket format. On a quick look, I'm a little disappointed.
I wonder if the Mobi versions from BoB are any different since they're from OverDrive instead of Mobipocket.

From what I understand it's the distributor who often does the formatting from a source file provided by the publisher, at least that's how it is for Hachette labels (they provide an epub and it's up to the distro's to make any other formats), don't know for sure if it's the same for Harper Collins or not.
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Old 04-20-2009, 09:29 AM   #87
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But Fictionwise is doing people a disservice. These books are available in ePub and they won't sell that. All Fictionwise sells is eReader and Mobipocket. BooksOnBoard sells the ePub whoch can be read with a 505 and a 700. It is a shame that Fictionwise has gone downhill. They don't even carry the MS Reader editions.
I wonder if it's their fault or if maybe Lightning Source (their distro for Lit files) doesn't have it yet (Harper is big on OverDrive). As for epub I think the only distributor, in the US at least, offering it is Over Drive and they dropped FW as a client so it might not be that they won't sell it, but can't.
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I got my copies. Now, just let me say this: All of us who have at any time said, "When the legal e-book comes out, I'll chuck my darknet copy and pay the full fare," show the industry that we were serious. I know I am.
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I have just put in a request to my local library for the ePub editions. I do hope the library gets them.

Last time I read all 4 books was not long before the LoTR movies came out.
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