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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2008-12-24 06:36 pm
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Merry Presentmas!

In common with the British Royal Family, I get my Christmas traditions from Germany, and thus presents are opened on the 24th of December.

I got books!  Many books!  Also, an ebook reader so that I can read even more books without carrying around half a ton of Stephenson.  Huzzah!

I hope that you're all having a fantastic time, in whatever timezone you're in, and that when you get to celebrate whatever you have to celebrate it that you enjoy it (unless you already celebrated it, in which case I hope it was good).
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2008-12-24 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course, if anyone wants to spoil me even more they can kidnap Julie and have her delivered to my bed tonight.

[identity profile] poisonduk.livejournal.com 2008-12-25 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Awwwwwww you are so sweet the pair of you.

[identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com 2008-12-24 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
The PRS505 rocks. Plus, the .epub format is simple enough to make producing your own ebooks straightforward.
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2008-12-25 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Working with PDFs so far - can you recommend a good epub producer? If I can convert HTML to epub that'd be great...

[identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com 2008-12-25 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm still looking for one myself, but it hasn't been too difficult to knock together a couple of perl scripts to massage plain text or (reasonable) HTML into epub.

PDF is less good, depending on the source. In particular, PDF reflow seems to be a pipe dream.
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2008-12-28 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
What a faff!

I wanted this story. So I tried the epub converter at BookGlutton, which gave me an epub file that crashed the reader. So I tried to print to PDF - but Firefox's printing is _awful_. So I used IE, which worked, but gave me the bar on the left. So I copied a bunch of the source HTML into a file, opened _that_, gave it a title element, printed it to PDF and uploaded it.

And now it's on my reader :->

[identity profile] nmg.livejournal.com 2008-12-28 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
There's an epub validator here that you might find of use...
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2008-12-28 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, worse than that - even that gave me something that didn't work.

What _did_ work was creating a new book on FeedBooks, copying and pasting the HTML into it, and then downloading the preview.

Oh well, at least I have a method that works now!
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