Tleszer wrote:Wow, it worked. Couldn't open "The Zombie Guide" without a program that can read .lit files though.
http://calibre-ebook.com/download" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
this thing converts just about any e-book format into just about any other e-book format, or just a plain .pdf; it's free, open-source;
the interface is like an audio player with library features - it sucks up the location of whatever kind of e-book or text document you tell it to,
puts it in the library, where you can tag and sort and so forth, and using the ISBN number, will go on-line to fill out the "information" data,
author, publisher, edition, &etc and download the cover if it's available - if you're importing from packed jpegs that use the book cover
for the medium, you can use that image, or whatever image you want - like album covers ...
from the library you can open any file in the "e-book viewer", which I've found to be just fine ....
SadisticCynic wrote:It's a neat trick. How d'you do it?
lurk moar ...
SandChigger wrote:What's not cool is a thread trying to load 2.6 MB of file.
ooops.
didn't think about that; I've gotten used to this semi-highspeed internet connection ...
I'm looking at the file sizes of all the different .pdfs and packed jpegs I have - they vary
widely ...
I don't know much about that, never really paid attention - the pdf of Dune I have is 3.27mb -
but the God-emperor is 608k ... the Zombie Jane Austen above is 1.16mb - but the four Arthur
C. Clarke novels packed into one .png is 526k .... the Oxford Book of American Poetry is 12.6mb ...
somebody will have to sort this out and figure out how to get the file sizes down to whatever
the acceptable level will be - I wasn't even thinking about that, I'm guessing deal breaker will
be all the copyright violations going on here ...
I can put all the books up as packed jpegs or pngs on photobucket, and post links here, but that's
just the same as posting a link to a pdf download elsewhere; defeats the purpose - hell, with this,
you can just drag and drop the image from the browser page into a Windows Explorer form, and it's
copied - unzip and there it is ...
anyway, y'all kick this around, we'll figure something out ... in the meantime, try the calibre thing,
and poke around on the chans in the /lit/ boards - that's where all the stuff is ... I'll look for and
post the links to the ones I found that are worthwhile when I can - I've really stopped using bookmarks
for anything other than often-visited sites - I've just been copying urls into angelwriter and saving the
doc as html, and bookmarking the html document; the browser shows the doc and all the urls are links ...
and I have little to no idea where I put the ebooks links ...
I'll post links to the source sites until Omph issues a cease-and-desist ...
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http://www.99chan.in/lit/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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