05-16-2010, 06:46 AM | #1 |
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Displaying HTML files on the 360
Hi all,
I've been reading ebooks on my laptop for about a year, and a lot of times with the books I've downloaded to date, I've deleted everything that came with the HTML version of the books (css file, graphics) except the html file itself. Despite my deleting the style instructions, these files display fine in my Firefox browser. Will they display the same way in the 360? Or am I in trouble if I don't have the full folder of contents that came with the html version of the ebook? |
05-16-2010, 08:06 AM | #2 | |
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no, they should work fine if they're displayed correctly by Firefox, no problem |
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05-16-2010, 08:30 AM | #3 | |
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If you want your PocketBook display html file with complete formatting, convert it to epub or other format using Calibre or BookDesigner or other program. |
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05-16-2010, 09:38 AM | #4 |
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Thanks, you guys, that completely answers my question!
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05-16-2010, 10:20 AM | #5 |
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Is there some reason to actually put html files in PB360? I just use Calibre and so far .lit's and .html's have been automatically converted to epub's.
Is epub "best" format to use with fb2 or should I change my Calibre settings? |
05-16-2010, 10:26 AM | #6 | |
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I usually convert ebooks in the epub format purely for space reasons, but if there's no drm I have no problem with the PB 360 in keeping them in fb2, mobi, prc or any format supported. Another reason can be an unreadable file (it can happen ) that will be converted in epub from mobi or the other way around, depending on the source. |
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05-16-2010, 11:09 AM | #7 | ||
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Even when I purchased Sony PRS-500 - that has been a huge improvement - I had to reformat the books, because I didn't like how they were displayed by default. An I still had to remove accented characters, curly quotes and other characters. (At that time I didn't know that there is program you can use to convert an rtf file to UTF8 encoding that seems to work with Sony Reader PRS-500) When I got my PocketBook 360° I was in Seventh Heaven. Suddenly I could just drop most of the files to the reader and they worked. Just worked. No more tinkering with books for 15 minutes per file. The files not only worked, I was also able to override any crazy formatting the file might have. Like Comic Sans font, or 15mm wide margins, or full justification, that together with large font, wide margin and non-existing proper hyphenation created rivers you could sail tanker through. To answer your question why I put html files directly on my device: Because now I can. Quote:
So if you use PocketBook, why convert from fb2? |
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05-16-2010, 04:17 PM | #8 |
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Thanks. I never realized fb2 was format. Now I set Calibre to produce fb2's. I wonder if PB can handle those faster and better than epub's?
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05-18-2010, 07:00 AM | #9 |
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You can also easily convert HTML to FB2 and read them on the PB360. Just use BookDesigner or the OOoFBTools for OpenOffice. Much better than ePub, IMHO...
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05-18-2010, 09:10 AM | #10 | |
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If you want to use some very specific formatting, you use epub, AND open it with Acrobat Reader on PocketBook. If you wish to override all formatting with settings on your PocketBook you open the epub in FBReader. FB2 format, is THE format the FBReader application was originally built for. The main feature of fb2 is that it does not describe presentation of the book, it leaves the presentation fully to the setting of reading application. fb2 format only describes structure of the document and it has the most complete set of tags you might want to use for description of the structure of the book. An fb2 file is XML documents and there are special "recipes" that describe how the fb2 document should be translated to other formats. You just run the book and the recipe through a parser written in Java. But this is more interesting to programmers that want to work with fb2. fb2 book can contain covers (and PocketBook can display those in cover view) and other files. So you have a book in a markup language and yet, you do not have to maintain the covers, images, illustrations and other stuff in separate files as you would have to do in html. You can even compress the fb2 file and the PocketBook can read Name_Of_Book.fb2.zip files directly. |
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