Phoenix Pick February 2018 Free Ebook

gbm · 02-06-2018, 09:41 PM

FEBRUARY 2018 EBOOK OF THE MONTH

CAPTIVE DREAMS
Michael Flynn

Quote:

Fine literary writing meets Science Fiction. A thematic tour-de-force exploring the concept of being human through the eyes of imperfect protagonists struggling with their demons. More than just great SF, these are great stories told with style, wit and sensitivity.

This collection consists of six stories set in the same neighborhood with the lives of the inhabitants of six residences tangentially interacting with each other across space and time.

If your preferred format is epub, I highly recommend you download the mobi and use calibre to convert to epub.

bernie

Rbneader · 02-08-2018, 10:44 AM

Wow, is the epub formatting really that bad?

DNSB · 02-08-2018, 06:00 PM

[QUOTE=Rbneader;3653990]Wow, is the epub formatting really that bad?[/QUOTES]

Visualize an epub where all the styles are inline (stylesheets? we don't need no stinkin' stylesheets!) and all the text is in a single file which looks suspiciously like the output of a save to html by a word processor, in this case Aspose.Words for .Net. Try editing that for gits and shiggles. The .mobi isn't that much prettier but at least the calibre conversion added the in-line styles to a stylesheet.

JSWolf · 02-08-2018, 06:35 PM

Calibre also takes the inline styles from the ePub and makes a stylesheet. But it's still not pretty. Basically, I just ignore Phoenix Pick because their eBooks are not worth my time to make them readable.

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02-08-2018, 10:44 AM	#2
Rbneader Fanatic Posts: 500 Karma: 2661351 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: None	Wow, is the epub formatting really that bad?

02-08-2018, 06:00 PM	#3
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 35,215 Karma: 145277352 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Forma, Clara HD, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	[QUOTE=Rbneader;3653990]Wow, is the epub formatting really that bad?[/QUOTES] Visualize an epub where all the styles are inline (stylesheets? we don't need no stinkin' stylesheets!) and all the text is in a single file which looks suspiciously like the output of a save to html by a word processor, in this case Aspose.Words for .Net. Try editing that for gits and shiggles. The .mobi isn't that much prettier but at least the calibre conversion added the in-line styles to a stylesheet.

02-08-2018, 06:35 PM	#4
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 73,835 Karma: 128597114 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Calibre also takes the inline styles from the ePub and makes a stylesheet. But it's still not pretty. Basically, I just ignore Phoenix Pick because their eBooks are not worth my time to make them readable.