Free Sci-Fi Anthology: Star Ship Sofa Stories Volume 1

Ocean · 09-22-2009, 05:12 PM

DixieGal · 09-22-2009, 05:20 PM

Great! I got it and glanced through a few pages. Looks like fun! But the writers are serious heavyweights, for instance, Elizabeth Bear. THANKS!

AlexBell · 09-23-2009, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Ocean

Link!

PDF only, 10.8Mb

Regards, Alex

Gibbo · 09-23-2009, 06:34 AM

Smashwords has it for $3 in a bunch of formats here

curtw · 09-23-2009, 09:32 AM

Ouch! the free PDF is so bloated that each page turn takes about three minutes on my 505. With a lot of cool authors (Michael Bishop, Michael Moorcock, Gene Wolfe), I'll probably pay the $3 for epub at smashwords.

mazzeltjes · 09-23-2009, 11:16 AM

Nice Collection, thanks for the tip.

I just ran it through Calibre to LRF....

ThomasMcKean · 09-23-2009, 11:07 PM

Calibre does not seem to like this book. I cannot get it to format properly in any kind of conversion.

acidzebra · 09-24-2009, 03:38 AM

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Originally Posted by ThomasMcKean

Calibre does not seem to like this book. I cannot get it to format properly in any kind of conversion.

Of course, look at the formatting of the PDF. That is one complex puppy. You can either buy the $3 book at smashwords as mentioned earlier in the thread (worth it IMHO) or if you really don't want to pay AND read it on your Sony you could find a copy of prflrf or similar pdf-to-image-to-lrf software and convert it that way.

tech_au · 09-24-2009, 03:42 AM

I ran it through Mobipocket creator to get it into html then used calibre to convert it to LRF.
The end result was pretty readable but the pictures were out-of-place which is what normally happens.
Only problem was the LRF ended up as 15MB instead of the original 10MB PDF.
Might try removing the pictures from the HTML before converting to LRF and the end result would be pretty good.

Seli · 09-24-2009, 09:09 AM

Nice, thanks for the heads-up.

09-22-2009, 05:12 PM	#1
Ocean Banned Posts: 166 Karma: 666 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Proud G1 Kindle Owner	Free Sci-Fi Anthology: Star Ship Sofa Stories Volume 1 Link!

09-23-2009, 09:32 AM	#5
curtw Outside of a dog Posts: 863 Karma: 4457646 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston, TX Device: Kindle Voyage	Ouch! the free PDF is so bloated that each page turn takes about three minutes on my 505. With a lot of cool authors (Michael Bishop, Michael Moorcock, Gene Wolfe), I'll probably pay the $3 for epub at smashwords. Last edited by curtw; 09-23-2009 at 09:46 AM.

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DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	Great! I got it and glanced through a few pages. Looks like fun! But the writers are serious heavyweights, for instance, Elizabeth Bear. THANKS!

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tech_au Oz Bookworm Posts: 516 Karma: 4056 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Australia Device: Sony PRS 505,PRS 650	I ran it through Mobipocket creator to get it into html then used calibre to convert it to LRF. The end result was pretty readable but the pictures were out-of-place which is what normally happens. Only problem was the LRF ended up as 15MB instead of the original 10MB PDF. Might try removing the pictures from the HTML before converting to LRF and the end result would be pretty good.

09-24-2009, 09:09 AM	#10
Seli Connoisseur Posts: 80 Karma: 732 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: Kobo Glo HD, Android phone	Nice, thanks for the heads-up.

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