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What if you are unhappy with a previously created version of the book, because errors weren't corrected? (Distributed Proofreaders has immensely raised the quality of PG texts. Some of the earlier ones created before that effort began contributing have problems.) You probably won't want to extract the text from the existing file and correct it. Simpler to start clean fron your own corrected source text. Quote:
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Google's GMail won't accept RAR files as attachments, apparently because they can't open them to check for possible malware. (They can examine Zip files.) This is annoying, because Eugene Rorshal issued public domain C code years ago to open and extract RAR archives, and reportedly offered to help Google integrate his code, but was turned down. If Gmail becomes popular in Europe, they'll need to rethink that decision. But open source code to create/extract Zip files has been available for Unix/Linux/*BSD for a long time. What do you use to create RAR files? Quote:
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Dennis, here is a suggestion for you. Why not just upload a high compression and a standard compression version, put them in the same post so people can download whichever one they want.
You can also do like most people who post books in this forum do- make multiple file types and post in all the mobile read ebook forums. Last edited by cmbs; 01-07-2008 at 11:31 PM. |
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The free Sony "Connect" software (or whatever it's called these days) contains a well-nigh perfect emulation of a Sony Reader and allows you to read Reader books on the PC. It's what I use to test all my Sony Reader format books before posting.
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Just to clarify. With a file using high compression you get directly the following disadvantages:
So if your goal is to have many people read the book you should not post the book in high compressin format. If that is not your goal than I assume the points above does not matter. |
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Also if you loose your own source files for a book and want to enhance it you will be glad if you can unpack your book. The MobiPocket book is saved here so that you will not loose. But people usually do not backup files regularly so when the disk crash you can loose the source files. Quote:
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Harry or anyone
I'm interested in working my way through this tutorial, but I find that when I open the sample book in Book Designer it shows the text well enough but not the images. Do I possibly have something set up incorrectly in BD? EDIT: Answering my own question here. Looks like it doesn't matter that the pictures didn't show up in Book Designer. Everything worked fine. Thanks for the tutorial. Carl Last edited by carld; 01-09-2008 at 07:58 PM. |
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Harry, if I have a collection that I have created in Book Designer and the only ToC that was auto generated was that for the titles of the different books but it also has user generated links for each of the ToC for each book, what will happen to the ToC when converting your way?
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Hi Jon,
There's no equivalent of the "auto-generated external TOC" of the Sony; Mobi books have to have an "internal" TOC - ie one implemented using hyperlinks. As you know, for a single book you can use BD's "insert TOC" menu command for this, but for omnibus books you have to generate them by hand. You then need to give the start of the TOC an HTML "bookmark" identifier (I use "toc") and specify that bookmark in the "Guide" section of the Mobi Creator settings in order to make the Mobi "Table of Contents" button take you to the right place. This is illustrated in my tutorial. |
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Hey, if you're going to go to all that trouble to make a nice toc for a multi-book file, why not go ahead and cut out SEVERAL steps in navigation and make it much faster and easier by using my method? I swear the white house won't explode, the sun won't stop shining, and it won't make a cybook crash. I've posted an example that PROVES it works.
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No reason not to have both, of course - Guide entries to the start of the individual books AND an internal TOC. That way you can take advantage of the navigation menu on devices which support it (Gen3) and it'll still work OK on devices which don't (iLiad).
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My navigation suggestion speeds navigation in the desktop reader too. It will speed navigation on any device that uses the mobipocket guide. Are you saying that the iliad doesn't display the mobipocket guide at all? |
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