eReader Decoder Tool

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

As you see above sona said Mac. You said case matters, this is basic Unix stuff. I said that Mac (by default) isn't case sensitive. Actually the Mac is build on FreeBSD which is based on BSD Unix. So, no not exactly Unix but very close.

What just trying to give some friendly info. I thought my Mac file system was case-sensitve too until someone on the subversion mail list mentioned that it wasn't.

BOb

Yea, thanks. Even when the file system is not case sensitive the Unix pieces may be. I have found that some Unix commands on my Windows PC are case sensitive even though the underlying OS is not. It can be a bit tricky for new users to understand what is happening. To be safe with Unix commands you are better to think of them as case sensitive for options.

Dale

[ficbot]

Anyone having any problem with quote marks? I have 25 books on the Sony now which on preview looked good (Had to convert to HTML, then ePub, then back to LRF to get the justification working). But in about a dozen of my books, the quotation marks and apostrophes seem to have gotten lost in translation. In the HTML they are showing up as placeholders (i.e. not as text but with a mark like you would get in Word if you turned on the show marks command) and in the ebook they are simply missing. I thought at first it might be certain publishers, but I have some from a publisher where one book will be fine and one won't be. Are these books simply not going to be convertable? Or do you have any ideas for how to make them readable again short of reading them on a computer and manually adding in every quote mark?

[FizzyWater]

Are you converting to LRF and/or ePub in Calibre? You have to enter the "source encoding" under "Look & Feel"...so far, cp1252 has worked for me. I noticed this was generally necessary from (originally) eReader books, not from Mobipocket ones.

[ficbot]

Okay, I am at my wit's end here I tried doing that as you said (using Calibre on a Mac) and I got the apostrophes and quote marks back but each one had an A with an umlaut before it. So then I got a tip from someone to use Book Designer which I do not have since I am a Mac user. I did see an option under LRF conversion to say pre-process the file as if it was from Book Designer, so I chose that. Did a convert to epub, then a convert to LRF, previewed in Calibre and everything looked perfect. But when I transferred the files to my reader, they were again missing all the punctuation.

[Patricia]

Did you set the language to German in BD?

[ficbot]

I don't have Book Designer. I am on a Mac. I am only using Calibre.

[ficbot]

So I guess I will have to bite the bullet and download Book Designer? This will be a huge inconvenience because I will have to run it on a netbook(which I don't often keep at home) and transfer files back and forth using a flash drive. So I was really REALLY oping for a solution which only requires Calibre, but nobody is replying...

So IS there a way to fix my books using JUST Calibre? What setting am I overlooking? What am I doing wrong? I have found on the Sony Reader that even files which looked fine on my Mac in Calibre are having errors on the Reader---even the ones without the quotation issue are missing em-dashes and the like. But most importantly I am baffled as to why something will be visible in the reader on Calibre and then not be there wen transferred to the Sony. I just want to set this up so I can read my existing bought and paid for books! I won't be buying secure ones in the future thanks to all these headaches, but I have about 45 of them from the past that I really want to be able to use. I have used the decoder tool successfully but now need to get the resulting files in readable condition---preferably using JUST the mac and Calibre. Can't anybody help me, please?

[wallcraft]

How does the ePub look using Adobe Digital Editions on the Mac? This will tell you if the problem is generic to ADE or specific to ADE on the Sony.

This does not appear to be missing characters in the Sony font, because I don't think this would produce A with an umlaut. It sounds more like a mis-identified encoding, e.g. the HTML from ereader2html identifies itself as (say) cp1252 when it fact it is (say) utf-8.

Assuming for the moment that the problem isn't just a mis-identified encoding, I think what you need is a file type plugin that converts a table of "bad" characters (or strings) to a set of "good" characters. See Customizing calibre. There are lots of potential uses for such a plugin (many of them mis-uses), but I am not aware of anyone producing one.

[ficbot]

Interesting point, Wallcraft! I previewed the epub file in Stanza and it looked absolutely perfect. So if I export if from Stanza as RTF or PDF or something, will that display okay on the Sony Reader?

[=X=]

Just found a bug with ereader2html.pl. The tool does not seem to export footnotes.

=X=

[frumble]

where can I download ereader2html.py??

[Novasea]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\pc>cd\python26\tools\scripts

C:\Python26\Tools\Scripts>eReader2html.py AgathaRaisinandWitchof_5592.pdb Conv "My Name" CC#
C:\Python26\Tools\Scripts\eReader2html.py:8: DeprecationWarning: the sha module
is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
import struct, binascii, zlib, os, sha, sys, os.path
eReader2Html v0.03. Copyright (c) 2008 The Dark Reverser
Processing... Error: incorrect eReader version 259 (error 1)

C:\Python26\Tools\Scripts>

I am getting the following error when trying to convert a book. I have converted 3 others with no problem.

I don't understand what the error msg "DeprecationWarning" means. I don't know what a hashlib module is. I don't know what "incorrect eReader version" is referring to.

Thank you for any help and/or advice.

[Angel_Enraged]

Originally Posted by Patricia

We aren't able to say. If we allow links then there could be legal trouble. Do a Google search and follow any hints given in the posts.

I am a moron - I need obvious hints - clear concise hints

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by Novasea

I don't understand what the error msg "DeprecationWarning" means. I don't know what a hashlib module is. I don't know what "incorrect eReader version" is referring to.

Don't worry about the "DeprecationWarning" or the hashlib module.

The "eReader version" is the 1st two bytes of PDB record 0, eReader header (wiki: EReader), but unfortunately 259 isn't a known type.

[=X=]

Originally Posted by Angel_Enraged

I am a moron - I need obvious hints - clear concise hints

use yahoo and look for ereader2html (this is a python script so you need an interpreter)

or torrent and look for drm package