FREE/BARGAIN — Science Fiction & Fantasy

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

I don't think there's much value in posting "deals" for suspicious $1 anthologies that just collect things in the public domain (or close to it).

This particular anthology has been $1 for a long time.

Not everyone knows where to get a good copy of these stories/books. Not everyone could fix things from Project Gutenberg. StandardEBooks eBooks do not work with n older RMSDK, so that's Kobo, Sony, Nook, and others (they could work if they deleted @media from CSS for the compatible version which isn't compatible).

So for some, it's just easier to pay the $0.99 to get these stories/books already in a collection.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Not everyone knows where to get a good copy of these stories/books. Not everyone could fix things from Project Gutenberg. StandardEBooks eBooks do not work with n older RMSDK, so that's Kobo, Sony, Nook, and others (they could work if they deleted @media from CSS for the compatible version which isn't compatible).

So for some, it's just easier to pay the $0.99 to get these stories/books already in a collection.

Jon, would you quit repeating that fable about Standard eBooks and RMSDK especially as it relates to Nook and Kobo.

I downloaded H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy from Standard eBooks and copied it unaltered to my Kobo Sage. Scrolling through the first 5 chapters, I could not see any issues due to the CSS. Chapter headers? Font size, weight and positioning just fine. First paragraphs? No indent. Subsequent paragraphs? 1em indent. Scene break image? Centred with top/bottom margins. Heck, even their invert images in dark mode works with Kobo's version of RMSDK. Yes, they have ePub3 only epub:type=, role= and other bits and bobs in the text. Again, RMSDK disregards them.

Yes, they have some special case stuff for Nooks, Apple Books, etc. None of those seem to trigger RMSDK into seeing an error in the stylesheet. RMSDK does what it designed to do when it runs into correctly formatted but unknown items in a stylesheet and disregards them.

Yes, when I have justification off, the pages show as left justified. My preference so I'm happy with that.

[dandaman]

I have added JSWolf to my ignore list for a number of reasons, including this one.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by dandaman

I have added JSWolf to my ignore list for a number of reasons, including this one.

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