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doranwen in fanfic_ebooks

Quick hi

Aug 17, 2011 23:37

Just discovered this community--I'm surprised I didn't look sooner. I've already gotten involved in fanfiction conversion after getting an Astak EZ Reader Pocket Pro *last* summer. It handles epub best, so I started asking one of my older fanfic communities (Lois & Clark) if it would be possible to offer fics in epub and not just txt like their ( Read more... )

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elfwreck August 18 2011, 17:42:15 UTC

EPub is easy to read on the computer if you use the epubreader plugin for Firefox. (I keep hoping for a mobi plugin as well, but I suppose mobi being proprietary will prevent that.)

I have a PocketEZ as well, and a Sony PRS-505. I've found the HTML support on the PEZ disappointing; it hyphenates words in really weird places. (Same problem with the supposed .doc support, and .txt support. I am muchly annoyed at their claim to read over a dozen filetypes; in my mind, filetype support does not including splitting the word "years" with a hyphen.)

I haven't gotten the hang of Sigil or Calibre, so I tend to convert fanfic to ereader-sized PDFs. Advantages: choice of fonts, good TOC, cover & internal art to my tastes, easily supports formatting that ePub and Mobi don't. Disads: Only arranged for *my* reading preferences, switching between devices changes the look (because they have different screen sizes), changing font sizes onscreen is troublesome.

doranwen August 20 2011, 06:22:24 UTC

Yeah, I use Epubreader on Firefox when I need to read an epub, but I find it less fluid and user-friendly (what's with the extra tab opening?) and pretty (I don't like the chapter link font look) than a pdf--I don't tend to skip around chapters when I read a story, so I don't need the chapter breaks as much. But if I had to choose only one format, I'd go for epub for a fanfic, just because it's more compatible everywhere and I like how it looks on the EZ Reader ( ... )

elfwreck August 20 2011, 14:41:56 UTC

An ePub can have just as good a TOC as a PDF (possibly better, on some readers), but I'm fluent in PDF and not in ePub. Making a TOC for a PDF is a matter of seconds for me; making one in ePub involves figuring out settings I don't yet understand. (I gather it's not difficult; it's just something I don't know. I've been adding bookmarks to PDFs for over 10 years; I can almost do it in my sleep ( ... )