Garbage characters in gutenburg books

ylsul · 04-25-2007, 12:21 PM

Hi,
Whenever I download project gutenburg etexts onto my reader, things like quotes (" or ') and up being its value (&23bx or somesuch...I just made that up), which is probably good for a computer to interpret, but looks ugly to me. Do you guys do some kind of preprocessing to clean stuff like this out before you upload to your reader? Or am I downloading these files incorrectly? Specifically, I'm referring to the ASCII versions of the texts.

thanks,

-y

NatCh · 04-25-2007, 12:47 PM

You could try doing a find/replace operation in Word ....

Leaping Gnome · 04-25-2007, 01:38 PM

Yeah, gutenberg books usually require some clean-up for me. There are some tools out there that can do this for you, take a look at the Wiki for conversion or some of the posts in the book upload section.

HarryT · 04-25-2007, 02:09 PM

If it's just something you're going to read once and probably not bother with again, try using Stingo's "Word" macro to clean up the file and save it as RTF to read on the Reader.

If it's something you plan to keep longer term, you might with to consider doing a more thorough editing job with "Book Designer" and converting it into a proper Sony Reader "LRF" file. See the "Tutorial" thread in the "Book Uploads" section for info on doing that.

04-25-2007, 12:21 PM	#1
ylsul Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 53 Join Date: Mar 2007	Garbage characters in gutenburg books Hi, Whenever I download project gutenburg etexts onto my reader, things like quotes (" or ') and up being its value (&23bx or somesuch...I just made that up), which is probably good for a computer to interpret, but looks ugly to me. Do you guys do some kind of preprocessing to clean stuff like this out before you upload to your reader? Or am I downloading these files incorrectly? Specifically, I'm referring to the ASCII versions of the texts. thanks, -y

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04-25-2007, 12:47 PM	#2
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	You could try doing a find/replace operation in Word ....

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Leaping Gnome Evangelist Posts: 490 Karma: 1641 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Louisville Device: Sony Reader PRS-500	Yeah, gutenberg books usually require some clean-up for me. There are some tools out there that can do this for you, take a look at the Wiki for conversion or some of the posts in the book upload section.

04-25-2007, 02:09 PM	#4
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	If it's just something you're going to read once and probably not bother with again, try using Stingo's "Word" macro to clean up the file and save it as RTF to read on the Reader. If it's something you plan to keep longer term, you might with to consider doing a more thorough editing job with "Book Designer" and converting it into a proper Sony Reader "LRF" file. See the "Tutorial" thread in the "Book Uploads" section for info on doing that.