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02-11-2024, 11:32 AM | #16 | |
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02-11-2024, 02:31 PM | #18 |
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If they don't specify a 3rd party service, then you'd be downloading directly from HB themselves.
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02-12-2024, 05:01 AM | #21 |
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02-13-2024, 06:11 AM | #23 | |
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A Humble Bundle partnership with Kobo? 39 Terry Pratchet books! Ends tomorrow.
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I’ve been purchasing from them for years. Aside from sloppy archives from Kodansha (as I detailed in the OP), I’ve mostly been pleased with Humble Bundle. There’s a little file icon at the top of the page that lists what formats the bundle is in. PDF and ePUB for the Kodansha one, for example. The Discworld bundle specifically said that the books were to be redeemed with Kobo. I’m a bit dismayed that Kodansha isn’t offering CBZ. It seems they’ve given up on doing them right since they botch the batches often. Once you purchase the bundle, you’re brought to the download page. Here you can individually download each file, batch download them (which floods your browser with individual downloads en masse. Don’t select this option. It typically skips files), download individual torrent files, or (and this is stupid) mass download all the individual torrent files. It doesn’t give you a convenient, single torrent archive of all the books so that everybody can help seed the torrent. I’ve taken to individually downloading the epubs or CBZ files so that I don’t miss any of them. The last time I used the service was when Kodansha released all the Vampire Hunter D light novels in a bundle. It was such a pain fixing missing covers, missing files, numbering them properly, and renaming them so that they listed similarly that I haven’t gone back for two years—until this past Kobo bundle, which was painless to grab. Now there’s a new Kodansha bundle with manga I’d like, but the pain of that last bundle of theirs that I bought two years ago still stings. Last edited by Cootey; 02-13-2024 at 06:30 AM. |
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02-13-2024, 10:14 AM | #25 |
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I saw this post while on vacation overseas -- I already own a few of the books, and have read a few others from library loans, but this was such a good deal I had to snag it. Luckily I have a VPN server running at home and my phone configured to use it, so I was able to grab the deal and redeem it!
Now I just need to get around to downloading all of the epubs and liberating them to read in KOReader, on my Kobo. EDIT: A lot of the books don't show covers in ADE... is this true for everybody, or should I try to re-download those? Ugh... Last edited by twowheels; 02-13-2024 at 10:25 AM. |
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I’m glad my post was seen by somebody else in time. I did notice a few ebook cover issues in Calibre, but they all downloaded with covers correctly on all my Kobo devices. I don’t deal with ADE anymore, so perhaps somebody else can help there. |
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02-14-2024, 04:27 AM | #27 |
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If ADE doesn't show a cover image, either the OPF file is malformed, or no cover image is present. Either way, you'll have to edit the book if you want a cover image. It's a symptom of a shoddy EPUB file and not a sign that your download failed, so redownloading won't help.
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02-14-2024, 11:07 AM | #28 |
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Thanks to both of you -- I ended up going through the entire set of books and updating the series info and downloading covers -- which also allowed me to use a consistent set of cover designs given that there are a few variants.
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02-22-2024, 05:14 PM | #30 |
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I've downloaded those in case I ever get the ebooks or need to recover my full set of pbooks!
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