Fantasy Baum, L. Frank Oz Omnibus Epub v1.1 23 June 2009

[Nate the great]

This omnibus contains all 14 Oz novels by Mr. Baum as well as a short story collection. It is quite an enjoyable read.

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[seanbob]

Very cool! Thanks for your work on this!

[jhempel24]

Very cool, does this have the illustrations in it? And if not, do you know where I could find the illustrations and add them?

[fewilcox]

There is an issue with Ozma of Oz in Chapter 4, "Tiktok the Machine Man": the two sections that detail the contents of Tiktok's instructions are each a single non-breaking line that is roughly three times the size of the page when viewed in Calibre's E-book Viewer. It comes out so wide on my PRS-505 that I thought the text was missing until I viewed it in Calibre.

Here are the two sections:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | SMITH & TINKER'S | | Patent Double-Action, Extra-Responsive, | | Thought-Creating, Perfect-Talking | | MECHANICAL MAN | | Fitted with our Special Clock-Work Attachment. | | Thinks, Speaks, Acts, and Does Everything but Live. | | Manufactured only at our Works at Evna, Land of Ev. | | All infringements will be promptly Prosecuted according to Law. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+

+--------------------------------------------------+ | | | DIRECTIONS FOR USING: | | For THINKING:--Wind the Clock-work Man under his | | left arm, (marked No. 1.) | | For SPEAKING:--Wind the Clock-work Man under his | | right arm, (marked No. 2.) | | For WALKING and ACTION:--Wind Clock-work in the | | middle of his back, (marked No. 3.) | | N. B.--This Mechanism is guaranteed to work | | perfectly for a thousand years. | | | +--------------------------------------------------+

With any luck, I'll be picking up a copy of Ozma of Oz from the library tomorrow afternoon and can see how it's supposed to be formatted but I presume that they're supposed to look like cards.

It's quite easy in a forum, but I have no idea how to force this in an epub:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                 |
|                         SMITH & TINKER'S                        |
|             Patent Double-Action, Extra-Responsive,             |
|                Thought-Creating, Perfect-Talking                |
|                         MECHANICAL MAN                          |
|          Fitted with our Special Clock-Work Attachment.         |
|       Thinks, Speaks, Acts, and Does Everything but Live.       |
|       Manufactured only at our Works at Evna, Land of Ev.       |
| All infringements will be promptly Prosecuted according to Law. |
|                                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+

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Originally Posted by jhempel24

Very cool, does this have the illustrations in it? And if not, do you know where I could find the illustrations and add them?

No it doesn't but I too would like to see them.

[fewilcox]

I also discovered a typo in a chapter title in The Marvelous Land of Oz: "The Scarecrow Appeals to Glenda the Good". The correct spelling, used in the rest of the chapter and indeed everywhere else so far (I was stumped when I got to the problem I posted above), is "Glinda".

[fewilcox]

I found quite a few more errors and have started making corrections. I also figured out how to add Tiktok's card text as cards (though I'm still guessing on the formatting of the second care) but they still display wider than the screen on my 505 regardless of zoom setting. Any advice?

[crich70]

Does your ebook reader have a landscape setting? I know Kindle has both portrait and landscape orientations, but not if other ereaders have both. The only other option I could see would be to somehow reformat them by trial and error til they appear properly within the screen width.

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by fewilcox

It's quite easy in a forum, but I have no idea how to force this in an epub:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                 |
|                         SMITH & TINKER'S                        |
|             Patent Double-Action, Extra-Responsive,             |
|                Thought-Creating, Perfect-Talking                |
|                         MECHANICAL MAN                          |
|          Fitted with our Special Clock-Work Attachment.         |
|       Thinks, Speaks, Acts, and Does Everything but Live.       |
|       Manufactured only at our Works at Evna, Land of Ev.       |
| All infringements will be promptly Prosecuted according to Law. |
|                                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+

It should be easy in an ePUB too, just put the text in a <div> with border.

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by fewilcox

There is an issue with Ozma of Oz in Chapter 4, "Tiktok the Machine Man": the two sections that detail the contents of Tiktok's instructions are each a single non-breaking line that is roughly three times the size of the page when viewed in Calibre's E-book Viewer. It comes out so wide on my PRS-505 that I thought the text was missing until I viewed it in Calibre.

Here are the two sections:

Sorry it took me a while to get back to this.

I was looking for the source files to see if i still have the original; I don't.

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by fewilcox

I found quite a few more errors and have started making corrections. I also figured out how to add Tiktok's card text as cards (though I'm still guessing on the formatting of the second care) but they still display wider than the screen on my 505 regardless of zoom setting. Any advice?

Please post the corrected book here, if Nate can't do it himself.

Regarding the formatting, you can post what you have so far in our Workshop forum.

I was going to have a try, but I don't feel like digging into all the calibre-digested classes...

[Cyclops]

So cool-I have to read this!

[PeterT]

There is also an error at the end of "Ozma of Oz".

File L.Frank_Baum_Oz_Omnibus_split_80.html contains raw text of the Gutenberg book ending.

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Ozma of Oz, by L. Frank Baum *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OZMA OF OZ