FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by Section8

I usually use calibre to split up omnibuses into separate books and download covers for them. This one looks like it will be a challenge - internally, the entire omnibus is one big html file, with a minimal style sheet and all in-line formatting.

Does the EPUB generated by kindleupack have the book text split into multiple files?

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Does the EPUB generated by kindleupack have the book text split into multiple files?

Not always.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Does the EPUB generated by kindleunpack have the book text split into multiple files?

Originally Posted by mbovenka

Not always.

I meant for the specific book section8 was referring to.

[GlenBarrington]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

WOW! I've just been invited to save the world! And I was hoping I could sit around all day in my underwear and read.

Oh, well......here's the link:

https://storybundle.com/action?utm_s...savingtheworld

What has the world ever done for me?

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour

The Book of Years Series - Peter Morwood

Omnibus of The Horse Lord, The Demon Lord and The Dragon Lord. Books 1 and 3 have definitely been free in the past. First time I remember seeing the whole lot being given away in one go, though.

amazon.co.uk | amazon.com | amazon.ca

I bought (and read) all these when they were on offer at £0.99 each in October last year. Most enjoyable. Highly recommended.

[Section8]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Does the EPUB generated by kindleupack have the book text split into multiple files?

No, the kindleunpack epub also just has one html file. I usually use epubsplit to help break up omnibuses, but in this case I will probably just try a calibre conversion first. I *think* that will break up the html, and move those in-line styles to a stylesheet.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by Section8

No, the kindleunpack epub also just has one html file. I usually use epubsplit to help break up omnibuses, but in this case I will probably just try a calibre conversion first. I *think* that will break up the html, and move those in-line styles to a stylesheet.

Thanks. That's too bad.

I'm pretty sure a calibre conversion will split the html, but based on size rather than chapters or some other similar scheme.

[DrLimu]

Originally Posted by j.p.s

Thanks. That's too bad.

I'm pretty sure a calibre conversion will split the html, but based on size rather than chapters or some other similar scheme.

I just tried it and it's based on chapters. Although in this book the split between books isn't perfect, the title pages of book 2 & 3 are placed at the end of the previous chapter, but that's easy to fix using the split function in Calibre.

Originally Posted by Section8

No, the kindleunpack epub also just has one html file. I usually use epubsplit to help break up omnibuses, but in this case I will probably just try a calibre conversion first. I *think* that will break up the html, and move those in-line styles to a stylesheet.

Calibre creates a stylesheet, it's not pretty, but better than before. I managed to remove 80 of the 114 classes by a simple regular expression (search and replace -aw-bookmark-end: _Toc[0-9]+) and the "Remove unused CSS"-function.

[Little.Egret]

Amazon UK Daily Deal

99p

Ancillary Justice: THE HUGO, NEBULA AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD WINNER (Imperial Radch Book 1) by Ann Leckie


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ancillary-J...dp/B00BU1DG1S/

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by dwig

email me and I'll send you a "fixed" cover for the boxed set.

Hey, thanks for that!

[ZodWallop]

The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M. H. Boroson is $1.99 at Amazon US.

It’s the end of the nineteenth century in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and ghost hunters from the Maoshan traditions of Daoism keep malevolent spiritual forces at bay. Li-lin, the daughter of a renowned Daoshi exorcist, is a young widow burdened with yin eyes—the unique ability to see the spirit world. Her spiritual visions and the death of her husband bring shame to Li-lin and her father—and shame is not something this immigrant family can afford.

When a sorcerer cripples her father, terrible plans are set in motion, and only Li-lin can stop them. To aid her are her martial arts and a peachwood sword, her burning paper talismans, and a wisecracking spirit in the form of a human eyeball tucked away in her pocket. Navigating the dangerous alleys and backrooms of a male-dominated Chinatown, Li-lin must confront evil spirits, gangsters, and soulstealers before the sorcerer’s ritual summons an ancient evil that could burn Chinatown to the ground.

With a rich and inventive historical setting, nonstop martial arts action, authentic Chinese magic, and bizarre monsters from Asian folklore, The Girl with Ghost Eyes is also the poignant story of a young immigrant searching to find her place beside the long shadow of a demanding father and the stigma of widowhood. In a Chinatown caught between tradition and modernity, one woman may be the key to holding everything together.

[ZodWallop]

The Last Astronaut by David Wellington is $2.99 at Amazon US.

Mission Commander Sally Jansen is Earth's last astronaut--and last hope--in this gripping near-future thriller where a mission to make first contact becomes a terrifying struggle for survival in the depths of space.

Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she lives in quiet anonymity, convinced her days in space are over.

She's wrong.

A large alien object has entered the solar system on a straight course toward Earth. It has made no attempt to communicate and is ignoring all incoming transmissions.

Out of time and out of options, NASA turns to Jansen. For all the dangers of the mission, it's the shot at redemption she always longed for.

But as the object slowly begins to reveal its secrets, one thing becomes horribly clear: the future of humanity lies in Jansen's hands.

[lkmiller]

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik is $2.99.

Kobo US
Amazon US

Hugo and Nebula finalist. Sort of a variation on Rumpelstiltskin, but very much its own thing. In a similar style to her previous book Uprooted, but not actually connected. I liked it more, and I really liked Uprooted. Highly recommended!

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by lkmiller

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik is $2.99.

Kobo US
Amazon US

Hugo and Nebula finalist. Sort of a variation on Rumpelstiltskin, but very much its own thing. In a similar style to her previous book Uprooted, but not actually connected. I liked it more, and I really liked Uprooted. Highly recommended!

Yay!

This is also an expansion of a short story first published in The Starlit Wood, an anthology of fairy tale retellings (and reprinted in several best-of-the-year anthologies)

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DrLimu

I just tried it and it's based on chapters. Although in this book the split between books isn't perfect, the title pages of book 2 & 3 are placed at the end of the previous chapter, but that's easy to fix using the split function in Calibre.

Calibre creates a stylesheet, it's not pretty, but better than before. I managed to remove 80 of the 114 classes by a simple regular expression (search and replace -aw-bookmark-end: _Toc[0-9]+) and the "Remove unused CSS"-function.

What I would do is split/join as needed. Then I would proceed to clean up the CSS. I would rename all the HTML files so you know what they are by the name. I would also losslessly compress any graphics. If you have multiple CSS, I would merge them into one. I would delete any HTML ToC and any other HTML file you don't need such as a review page, or list of other books the author has written. eBooks have an advertising page that uses embedded fonts that you can dump as well as the fonts. And there are other HTML that can go.

It sounds a lot harder then it is, but it's not all that hard to do. For example, some of the cleaning up of the HTML can be done easily with search/replace.