The Reading Vent & Rant Thread - Page 168

nabsltd · 03-28-2024, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Exact same edition?

Kindle books with the same ASIN as the one I purchased. So, it could be a newer edition, but I'm entitled to it for free.

ownedbycats · 04-02-2024, 06:50 AM

Nothing like having to scroll several screens of random quotes from Goodreads reviews to find out what the damn book is even about. Usually it makes me hit the back button.

JSWolf · 04-02-2024, 08:07 AM

What I cannot stand are review blurbs in book descriptions. They are descriptions, not reviews. So keep the reviews out of the descriptions.

ownedbycats · 04-02-2024, 08:52 AM

I remove those when downloading the Calibre metadata.

JSWolf · 04-02-2024, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I remove those when downloading the Calibre metadata.

I remove them as well. But I should not have to.

ownedbycats · 04-02-2024, 09:05 AM

Also, when downloading metadata for older out-of-print paperbooks, for some reason downloading the summary often includes what is probably half the first chapter. Definitely annoying to clean that up.

JSWolf · 04-02-2024, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Also, when downloading metadata for older out-of-print paperbooks, for some reason downloading the summary often includes what is probably half the first chapter. Definitely annoying to clean that up.

Some book listings do have a preview in the listing.

Sirtel · 04-09-2024, 08:46 AM

When you open a book on your reader for the first time and discover it has no working TOC. At all. No, it's not a self-published book; it's a well-known author from a major publisher. Granted, bought 10 years ago or so.

Back to the editor with it...

JSWolf · 04-09-2024, 08:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sirtel

When you open a book on your reader for the first time and discover it has no working TOC. At all. No, it's not a self-published book; it's a well-known author from a major publisher. Granted, bought 10 years ago or so.

Back to the editor with it...

Can you go back to the shop you bought this eBook and download it again? It may have been updated since you bought it,

Sirtel · 04-09-2024, 09:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Can you go back to the shop you bought this eBook and download it again? It may have been updated since you bought it,

Unfortunately not. It was bought from Diesel, which has ceased to exist long since.

ownedbycats · 04-11-2024, 07:17 PM

Fun new drinking game if you want to kill your liver: Spotting AI-generated cover art.

Aleron Ives · 04-11-2024, 08:14 PM

You can tell by the people who have 11 fingers and 3 legs.

DNSB · 04-11-2024, 10:14 PM

One book my spouse just picked up had (in the order they appeared), a review that took about 15 lines, a 6 line blurb for the book, a bunch of reviews mostly for other books by the same author that took up 340 lines and the complete contents of the prologue and chapter 1 taking about 500 lines. I ended up deleting all but the blurb. Inside the ebook, the cover image, author photo and a couple of other images were all sized at 2250 x 3000. Shrinking them down to more reasonable sizes knocked the book from 14.6MB to 1.2MB.

Quoth · 04-12-2024, 06:57 AM

It was bad when Amazon/publishers started putting part of blurb into book title. But what madness is it to use that exactly as a filename?

I can save a filename with a ":" in it on Linux, but rsync backup will fall over.

Note to self: don't just shorten file names but make sure no stupid characters. They should get lessons from Kovid Goyal.

JSWolf · 04-12-2024, 07:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Unfortunately not. It was bought from Diesel, which has ceased to exist long since.

What book is this in case I can get it from the library?

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ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,347 Karma: 79528341 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Nothing like having to scroll several screens of random quotes from Goodreads reviews to find out what the damn book is even about. Usually it makes me hit the back button.

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JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 80,727 Karma: 150249619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	What I cannot stand are review blurbs in book descriptions. They are descriptions, not reviews. So keep the reviews out of the descriptions.

04-02-2024, 08:52 AM	#2509
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,347 Karma: 79528341 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	I remove those when downloading the Calibre metadata.

04-02-2024, 09:05 AM	#2511
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,347 Karma: 79528341 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Also, when downloading metadata for older out-of-print paperbooks, for some reason downloading the summary often includes what is probably half the first chapter. Definitely annoying to clean that up.

04-09-2024, 08:46 AM	#2513
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,983 Karma: 243829945 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	When you open a book on your reader for the first time and discover it has no working TOC. At all. No, it's not a self-published book; it's a well-known author from a major publisher. Granted, bought 10 years ago or so. Back to the editor with it...

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ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,347 Karma: 79528341 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Fun new drinking game if you want to kill your liver: Spotting AI-generated cover art.

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Aleron Ives Wizard Posts: 1,773 Karma: 16319690 Join Date: Sep 2022 Device: Kobo Libra 2	You can tell by the people who have 11 fingers and 3 legs.

04-11-2024, 10:14 PM	#2518
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 48,088 Karma: 174315300 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	One book my spouse just picked up had (in the order they appeared), a review that took about 15 lines, a 6 line blurb for the book, a bunch of reviews mostly for other books by the same author that took up 340 lines and the complete contents of the prologue and chapter 1 taking about 500 lines. I ended up deleting all but the blurb. Inside the ebook, the cover image, author photo and a couple of other images were all sized at 2250 x 3000. Shrinking them down to more reasonable sizes knocked the book from 14.6MB to 1.2MB.

04-12-2024, 06:57 AM	#2519
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,975 Karma: 111111111 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	It was bad when Amazon/publishers started putting part of blurb into book title. But what madness is it to use that exactly as a filename? I can save a filename with a ":" in it on Linux, but rsync backup will fall over. Note to self: don't just shorten file names but make sure no stupid characters. They should get lessons from Kovid Goyal.