04-04-2009, 11:19 PM | #16 |
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-edit Never mind, I get what you are saying.
If you want, I can post your review on Amazon and give you credit. |
04-04-2009, 11:48 PM | #17 |
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Dreams*, as I mentioned above, I don't know much about ereader formats, but if epub seems to be a common request, I'll talk to my web host about offering it.
Thanks to everyone for the friendly response and for letting me share my work! Cheers, Boyd Last edited by dreams; 11-30-2010 at 04:26 PM. Reason: * removed my personal info |
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04-05-2009, 03:10 PM | #18 |
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I was able to easily convert the mobi format to epub. From my initial review don't think I lost any formatting (bold and italics).
Boyd, appreciate making these books available. If you do make it available I would definitely donate after reading each book. Firm believer is paying for my entertainment. |
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Just to let you know that I have finished The Ark and quite enjoyed it. I think you've got lots going for you. I downloaded the PDF and then ran it through Calibre to try and change it to Epub. Some of the meta data is still not correct and I'm not proficient enough to fix the problem so it would be great to have it in epub from scratch if you can get the web host to do it for you. I am also more than willing to pay for the books as I read whenever you set up some payment method. ~Jen Last edited by dreams; 11-30-2010 at 04:29 PM. Reason: removed my personal info from quote |
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04-05-2009, 08:15 PM | #20 |
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JenPen1, you'll have nothing to read through your holiday in May at this rate! You sped through The Ark
I'm 2/3 through it now, and still enjoying it very much. I've downloaded the other 2 books ready. |
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04-06-2009, 12:44 PM | #21 |
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I think the metadata in the Mobipocket format is now fixed. If it isn't, please let me know.
Glad you're enjoying the books! Cheers, Boyd |
04-06-2009, 12:56 PM | #22 |
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Help.. I'm trapped in the Ark and it won't let me go..
Seriously, It has sucked me in and unless the story take some insane cataclysmic plot twist, I'm seat belted in for the ride.. Boyd, Thanks for the excellent story.. (for as much as I have read of it..) I couldn't put it down to sleep.. Now if I can just stop thinking about it while I'm at work.. |
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04-06-2009, 02:08 PM | #24 |
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Boyd Thanks for the books. I enjoyed reading your website, & from a brief first look your books will be just as entertaining. Starting the Ark tonight.
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04-06-2009, 07:06 PM | #25 |
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Hi Boyd, thanks for making the books available, I just started The Ark and I am really enjoying it.
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04-07-2009, 03:53 PM | #26 |
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Thanks for everyone reading my books! Hope you're getting some sleep, Shadow.
For anyone who's interested, I'll be leading a book club discussion of The Ark on Kindleboards.com starting May 1. Cheers, Boyd |
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I've read and enjoyed The Ark; have yet to read the others. I was disturbed to discover, however, that your Mobipocket books attempt to mandate their particular choice of fonts. This is unfortunate, because it persists through automatic conversion to ePub (by way of Calibre). The mandated fonts (Times Roman, etc.) then interfere with the simplest way of over-riding the fonts so I can read with MY choice instead of yours.
I suspect that what you really wanted was to control things like "body", italic, emphasis, mono-spaced vs. not, and maybe even serif font vs. sans serif font. Going beyond that to mandate specific fonts is a rather iffy step -- most ebook readers don't have your particular choice of fonts installed anyway! Can you produce source files (mobi or whatever) that control the part you want, but not the specific font-family? It would be wonderful... Xenophon P.S. With a bit more thought I realize that most likely you (as author) didn't really mandate a specific font in the eBooks. Rather, MS Word (or whatever) looked at your default font settings and passed those through to the HTML that got converted to mobi that.... |
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The way to handle the font problem is mobi2oeb and then edit the HTML to fix the problems and then convert back or to whatever format you want.
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