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This post is for Kindle and Cybook users
for a long time Sony users were able to use the program Calibre to manage our ebook library, and convert LIT, Mobi, html, rtf/word documents into LRF or Epub. It's a GREAT program. I use it all the time.
Now Kindle and Cybook users can use Calibre too. I checked the changelog for the newest version. http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/wiki/Changelog and it appears that they've added Kindle and Cybook detection and the ability to convert files to mobi. (I'm sure the first version will probably have bugs but what I'm going to test tonight is batch convert and see if I can make mulitple mobipocket files)
I'm rather excited about this development. :)
Now Kindle and Cybook users can use Calibre too. I checked the changelog for the newest version. http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/wiki/Changelog and it appears that they've added Kindle and Cybook detection and the ability to convert files to mobi. (I'm sure the first version will probably have bugs but what I'm going to test tonight is batch convert and see if I can make mulitple mobipocket files)
I'm rather excited about this development. :)
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but I have one time used the command prompt to do a LRF2LRF in order to change the margins.
you have to use the command line it should be any2mobi.
so from the command prompt i normally move the story I wanted converted into the C: drive to make things easier for me.
I type in any2mobi thefilename and hit enter.
http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/user_manual/cli/any2mobi.html
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And it did work. I used an rtf file and created a *.mobi file which I loaded manually (which is the only way to load them as far as I can tell) and could read it. So, yay!
This is actually easier than mobipocket creator.
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And yes Calibre is so much easier than Mobipocket creator. I looked at Creator and I think my eyes kind of went crosseyed. :)
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I have a story I just tried to code and it couldn't deal with the different fonts and colors. I got one long file of text without breaks at all.
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I wanted to test it with files that have a table of contents and images and see how that goes.
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p.s.
Re: p.s.
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It Can work reliably for lrf but epub is a right pain !
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I'm also having difficulty replicating my results for LRF into ePub.:(
not sure what css I need to use but I LOVE the way my LRF's come out and I've been having difficulty figuring out what I'm doing wrong with epub. I figured maybe it was still in the beta process.
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Sugar quill runs on another type of archiving software though. :( I wrote to the admin and she said someone else built it for them.
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The html on the sugar quill is really nasty as they let the authors just paster raw html into the page so often they have multiple headers etc. And Microsoft word produces evil html and style sheets as well.
Given enough time a script could be produced to do something useful with any site. Its the enough time thing thats the problem.
I have been working on doing a good job at transforming comics, for the last couple of weeks.
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As for comics have you had any experience with manga's??? i was going to try the .cbr function and see how good the LRF's come out. :) But I think I still have the Ultimate Spiderman series on my computer somewhere...just not sure how well those would translate to black/white.
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I looked into the comic2lrf and I have very good eyesight and I can read the comics and they do look good. However sometimes the text is too small, After hassling kovid about lrf and epub. I discovered that the rendering engine does the right thing for landscape mode pdfs ( eg you can get more pixels in ). So I did the work for comic2pdf which i think you can guess what it does....
( It requires reportlabs which kovid's not going to bundle until verison .5 which is going to be in the next month or so ), but it does work :)
I have got a version yet to be integrated which will take a directory and generae a pdf with table of contents where each directory is a sub table of contents and each file is a table of contents entry, its very sweet I just need to do the merge back in with the main code.
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