Odd page-jumps in Calibre-converted files?

[Mama Zappa]

I've got a large-ish number of books that originated from Ereader.com. I converted them to EPUB using Calibre, and loaded them onto my Nook Color. I did all that back before B&N decided to shut down Ereader and make the files available directly in my Nook library.

Trying to read one book recently, I ran into a problem where as I did a page forward, the page number at the bottom went to something much earlier in the book. Another page forward, and suddenly I was *on* that earlier page. The sequence was something like this:
Reading page 40
Swipe finger right-to-left to go to next page/paragraph
See next paragraph text, but bottom of page says '5'.
Swipe finger right-to-left to go to the next page
See text from page 6, and number at bottom says '6'.

When I pulled up the same book in Calibre and viewed it, I could flip through the book with no problem.

I tried updating my Calibre version and re-converting the book and that got me past the first glitch - but the same thing happened about 30 pages later in the book. I wound up having to go directly to the page after the troublemaker.

I've seen this happen with a handful of other files as well in the past.

So: I don't know if this is a Calibre bug, or something that the Nook sees in the Calbre-converted file that confuses it somehow.

Any suggestions for what I can do to tweak my EPUB file so that the Nook will quit misbehaving?

[kovidgoyal]

convert to mobi and then convert the mobi to epub.

[Mama Zappa]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

convert to mobi and then convert the mobi to epub.

I forgot to come back and thank you, back when I posted this. That seems to have solved the problem.

The book I was having trouble with at the time was especially annoying: it was bought from Peanut Press / Palm Reader / Ereader.com which was later acquired by Barnes and Noble - so I could re-download it from B&N - and **their** version was messed up as well (I was darn sure the book had more than 117 pages ).

[new]

Originally Posted by Mama Zappa

I forgot to come back and thank you, back when I posted this. That seems to have solved the problem.

The book I was having trouble with at the time was especially annoying: it was bought from Peanut Press / Palm Reader / Ereader.com which was later acquired by Barnes and Noble - so I could re-download it from B&N - and **their** version was messed up as well (I was darn sure the book had more than 117 pages ).

I am having the same problem with several books skipping order while I am reading, drives me crazy. I deleted everything on my Kindle PW and reloaded the book and 10 others, since I thought it was my PW. I originally started with an Epub, converted to AZW3, then Mobi. I put the Mobi on my PW.

So what would I do to fix it? Did you download the book again? Or do I just deleted all but the Epub and convert to Mobi or AZW3 again?

[Mama Zappa]

Originally Posted by new

I am having the same problem with several books skipping order while I am reading, drives me crazy. I deleted everything on my Kindle PW and reloaded the book and 10 others, since I thought it was my PW. I originally started with an Epub, converted to AZW3, then Mobi. I put the Mobi on my PW.

So what would I do to fix it? Did you download the book again? Or do I just deleted all but the Epub and convert to Mobi or AZW3 again?

Drives me batty too (though that's a very short drive most days....). Especially if I'm rereading something, and reading somewhat fast, I'll go to the "next page" and be a paragraph and a half down before something in my head goes "Wha??? This seems AWFULLY familiar!" .

I converted the source files to mobi, then converted (reconverted) them to epub when I was using my Nook. I don't recall whether Calibre automatically updated the books on the Nook when I did that, or if I had to change a setting to say "automatically update", or whether I manually deleted/reloaded them onto the device.

After some lowlife sleazebag decided he (she?) needed my Nook more than I did (I don't regret the Nook, I *do* regret the Oberon Design case it was in!!), I bought a Kindle PW.

And I had the same problem with books that had been epubs and now were AZW3. Most recently it was a book where as soon as I finished a chapter and swiped to get to the next page, I found myself back at the start of that chapter. This happened with every single chapter. Fortunately I could just go to the table of contents and go to the next chapter (something that did NOT work with the books on the Nook with the more-random jumps).

So I went back to Calibre, converted the epub to mobi then mobi to AZW3 (I didn't have to delete the old AZW3, I guess Calibre just overlaid it), then I deleted the book from the Kindle and re-copied it, and it's behaving correctly.

In your case, if the PW can read mobi format (which I hadn't realized), then possibly just doing epub-to-mobi would be sufficient. Give it a try.

Fortunately it shouldn't be too awful a chore, just takes a few minutes of clicking to get the conversions started. I wound up filtering on everything that had been imported as pdb, converting each of those to mobi, then filtering on all mobi files and converting each of THOSE to azw3.

BTW - Kovid, thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou for making such a wonderful tool!!

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by Mama Zappa

(I don't regret the Nook, I *do* regret the Oberon Design case it was in!!)

That's why I still want Amazon to do an updated DX that's the same size as the original: the red Sky Dragon Oberon cover I have for it