PRS-350 Text missing and dictionary problems

Vesper · 06-27-2011, 11:29 AM

I'm a new - and rather irritated - owner of brand new 350. It's a great little thing but I'm now at the end of my rope.

Book is from mobileread library - H. Beam Piper omnibus Terro-Human Future History. I didn't try other books. It was transferred to the reader first time with explorer copy/paste and second time with Calibre. Problems are manifesting on both occasions.
Problem 1 - when reading in S size parts of text are missing but can be seen in M or XS. I found some messages in the forum about this problem, but they are old and offer no help.
My guess - a problem with rendering pages when it comes to this particular size. Anyone familiar with this and can offer any kind of solution?
Problem 2 - some parts of text cannot be selected - to add a note or call a dictionary. This is consistent through all font sizes (or at least XS, S and M I tried).
Have no idea what can cause this. Opened epub in Sigil and looked and the code. Nothing to indicate reason for such behaviour.

DrS

jackie_w · 06-27-2011, 12:46 PM

Is this is the book you are referring to? If so then if you read the thread you will see that the uploader has acknowledged that there is a problem with the HTML coding in this epub. See posts #8 and #9

No guarantees, but if you are a Calibre user, you could try running an EPUB-->EPUB conversion to see if sorts out the problem.

Vesper · 06-27-2011, 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Is this is the book you are referring to? If so then if you read the thread you will see that the uploader has acknowledged that there is a problem with the HTML coding in this epub. See posts #8 and #9
No guarantees, but if you are a Calibre user, you could try running an EPUB-->EPUB conversion to see if sorts out the problem.

Good idea. I"ll try it. But the coding seems ok, from what I have seen...

DrS

Vesper · 06-28-2011, 02:26 AM

Well, I did epub to epub conversion and it didn't help. Is this book a lemon or can I look forward to such experiences again?

DrS

jackie_w · 06-28-2011, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vesper

Well, I did epub to epub conversion and it didn't help. Is this book a lemon or can I look forward to such experiences again?

DrS

Have sent you a PM.

dordale · 06-28-2011, 12:12 PM

Sounds like a problem with that particular book. Why don't you try some other books and see if you have problems with them as well?

Vesper · 06-28-2011, 02:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dordale

Sounds like a problem with that particular book. Why don't you try some other books and see if you have problems with them as well?

It turned out it was a problem with this book - some weirdness with tags that resulted in problems I've had. And that was the first book I wanted to read and got stumped right in the beginning. What and intro to epub...

Jackie sent me purified version that works like charm

DrS

06-27-2011, 11:29 AM	#1
Vesper Addict Posts: 205 Karma: 1133 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Serbia Device: Sony PRS-350, Cybook Gen3, Palm T\|X	Text missing and dictionary problems I'm a new - and rather irritated - owner of brand new 350. It's a great little thing but I'm now at the end of my rope. Book is from mobileread library - H. Beam Piper omnibus Terro-Human Future History. I didn't try other books. It was transferred to the reader first time with explorer copy/paste and second time with Calibre. Problems are manifesting on both occasions. Problem 1 - when reading in S size parts of text are missing but can be seen in M or XS. I found some messages in the forum about this problem, but they are old and offer no help. My guess - a problem with rendering pages when it comes to this particular size. Anyone familiar with this and can offer any kind of solution? Problem 2 - some parts of text cannot be selected - to add a note or call a dictionary. This is consistent through all font sizes (or at least XS, S and M I tried). Have no idea what can cause this. Opened epub in Sigil and looked and the code. Nothing to indicate reason for such behaviour. DrS

06-27-2011, 12:46 PM	#2
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,251 Karma: 16539642 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E, LibraCol, PBTouchHD3	Is this is the book you are referring to? If so then if you read the thread you will see that the uploader has acknowledged that there is a problem with the HTML coding in this epub. See posts #8 and #9 No guarantees, but if you are a Calibre user, you could try running an EPUB-->EPUB conversion to see if sorts out the problem. Last edited by jackie_w; 06-27-2011 at 12:48 PM.

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06-28-2011, 02:26 AM	#4
Vesper Addict Posts: 205 Karma: 1133 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Serbia Device: Sony PRS-350, Cybook Gen3, Palm T\|X	Well, I did epub to epub conversion and it didn't help. Is this book a lemon or can I look forward to such experiences again? DrS

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dordale Wizard Posts: 1,731 Karma: 3472866 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Sony PRS-650 & 350; Kindle Voyage; Kobo Aura HD, Aura One, and Forma	Sounds like a problem with that particular book. Why don't you try some other books and see if you have problems with them as well?

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