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DDHarriman · 02-24-2009, 11:22 AM

Hi Trevor

Great work!

Best,

BruceB · 02-24-2009, 04:58 PM

Agreed, it's *GREAT*. What are the units for the margins? Percent of screen? pixels? inches?

BruceB · 02-24-2009, 05:04 PM

Another question best illustrated with an example.

Go to the website. Enter "verne" (no quotes) for the author and "island" (also no quotes) for the title. Select the first one ("The Secret of the Island").

What's going on with pages 4-9???

coolbooks · 02-25-2009, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BruceB

Another question best illustrated with an example.

Go to the website. Enter "verne" (no quotes) for the author and "island" (also no quotes) for the title. Select the first one ("The Secret of the Island").

What's going on with pages 4-9???

In order to denote Italics you should use _Italics_ . This book contained a whole line of _'s. Therefore when I replaced them with <I></I> I ran into problems. I have now fixed this so please download the book again.

There will no doubt be more cases where the output is not correct. Please notify me when you come upon such a book and I will correct the problem.

Regards,

Trevor

coolbooks · 02-25-2009, 08:00 PM

Hi Everyone,

em-dash is now implemented.

Regards,

Trevor

coolbooks · 02-25-2009, 08:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BruceB

Agreed, it's *GREAT*. What are the units for the margins? Percent of screen? pixels? inches?

The units for margins is pixels.

I am a little more uncertain about exactly what the font size relates to but 100 is quite small, 150 is great for children.

Regards,

Trevor

coolbooks · 02-27-2009, 06:28 PM

I have also now posted a Sudoku player on the site (my main line of business is in puzzles).

Regards,

Trevor

igorsk · 02-27-2009, 06:49 PM

Please check the site in Opera, I get cut off tables. You might want to look into GutenMark for better results. Also, your books are uncompressed which makes them unnecessarily large. Why not use Calibre for conversion?

coolbooks · 02-27-2009, 07:40 PM

I will check regarding the cut off tables.

My rationale behind the site is that I wanted to make the process of getting books onto the Sony easier. I aim to make the whole process as simple as possible - so simple that my dad can put books onto his reader without having to ask me for assistance.
I am now looking at taking html books as the preferred source, this will give me better results. Also I will be honing the conversion so that even the .txt files are converted to produce very neat books.
Even as the conversions are at the moment, I am happy with the results. It provides me with books that I can read with the minimum of effort. Maybe my expectations are not that high but I am confident that the results I achieve will continually improve.

Regards,

Trevor

igorsk · 02-28-2009, 12:00 PM

I mean you could use Calibre's LRF converter as back-end for your site. This would give you properly compressed files. It also already handles HTML input.

jimad · 03-19-2009, 06:35 PM

Project Gutenberg is starting to offer their books in directly Sony Reader compatible EPUB format directly, although the efforts still somewhat show their "experimental" nature.

Kindle users can convert to Amazon format via Stanza or Calibre.

gregcd · 04-24-2009, 01:00 AM

Great job! I tried this with Moby Dick and custom settings.

The line spacing looks good, it appears a little bit more spaced than calibre books.

This is great for loading books on to SD card while on holiday (I'm not a big fan of the epub font)

teemee · 12-23-2009, 04:50 PM

how can i get the membership of this www.coolfreebooks.com?

ficbot · 12-23-2009, 06:40 PM

I have tried the LRF books from Manybooks.net and find they have excessive line breaks for me. I found I get the best results with downloading the HTML from PG and converting it with Calibre. I am still experimenting---most of the books I want are available here and I have been going to PG for French stuff. In one case, the HTML looked beautiful but the accents didn't work when I converted it.

04-24-2009, 01:00 AM	#27
gregcd Connoisseur Posts: 90 Karma: 100000 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: New Zealand Device: prs-t1, prs-650 to sell	Great job! I tried this with Moby Dick and custom settings. The line spacing looks good, it appears a little bit more spaced than calibre books. This is great for loading books on to SD card while on holiday (I'm not a big fan of the epub font) Last edited by gregcd; 04-24-2009 at 02:20 AM.

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DDHarriman Guru Posts: 860 Karma: 4380 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Almada, Portugal Device: Cybook Gen3, Sony PRS 505, Kindle DXG and Samsung Galaxy Note	Hi Trevor Great work! Best,

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BruceB Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: PRS505	Agreed, it's GREAT. What are the units for the margins? Percent of screen? pixels? inches?

02-24-2009, 05:04 PM	#18
BruceB Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: PRS505	Another question best illustrated with an example. Go to the website. Enter "verne" (no quotes) for the author and "island" (also no quotes) for the title. Select the first one ("The Secret of the Island"). What's going on with pages 4-9???

02-25-2009, 08:00 PM	#20
coolbooks Member Posts: 14 Karma: 268 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Sony PRS505	Hi Everyone, em-dash is now implemented. Regards, Trevor

02-27-2009, 06:28 PM	#22
coolbooks Member Posts: 14 Karma: 268 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Sony PRS505	I have also now posted a Sudoku player on the site (my main line of business is in puzzles). Regards, Trevor

02-27-2009, 06:49 PM	#23
igorsk Wizard Posts: 3,442 Karma: 300001 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Belgium Device: PRS-500/505/700, Kindle, Cybook Gen3, Words Gear	Please check the site in Opera, I get cut off tables. You might want to look into GutenMark for better results. Also, your books are uncompressed which makes them unnecessarily large. Why not use Calibre for conversion?

02-27-2009, 07:40 PM	#24
coolbooks Member Posts: 14 Karma: 268 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Sony PRS505	I will check regarding the cut off tables. My rationale behind the site is that I wanted to make the process of getting books onto the Sony easier. I aim to make the whole process as simple as possible - so simple that my dad can put books onto his reader without having to ask me for assistance. I am now looking at taking html books as the preferred source, this will give me better results. Also I will be honing the conversion so that even the .txt files are converted to produce very neat books. Even as the conversions are at the moment, I am happy with the results. It provides me with books that I can read with the minimum of effort. Maybe my expectations are not that high but I am confident that the results I achieve will continually improve. Regards, Trevor

02-28-2009, 12:00 PM	#25
igorsk Wizard Posts: 3,442 Karma: 300001 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Belgium Device: PRS-500/505/700, Kindle, Cybook Gen3, Words Gear	I mean you could use Calibre's LRF converter as back-end for your site. This would give you properly compressed files. It also already handles HTML input.

03-19-2009, 06:35 PM	#26
jimad Connoisseur Posts: 53 Karma: 52 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Kindle	Project Gutenberg is starting to offer their books in directly Sony Reader compatible EPUB format directly, although the efforts still somewhat show their "experimental" nature. Kindle users can convert to Amazon format via Stanza or Calibre.

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teemee Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: sony prs 505	how can i get the membership of this www.coolfreebooks.com?

12-23-2009, 06:40 PM	#29
ficbot Wizard Posts: 2,409 Karma: 4132096 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Kindle Paperwhite/iOS Kindle App	I have tried the LRF books from Manybooks.net and find they have excessive line breaks for me. I found I get the best results with downloading the HTML from PG and converting it with Calibre. I am still experimenting---most of the books I want are available here and I have been going to PG for French stuff. In one case, the HTML looked beautiful but the accents didn't work when I converted it.