The Random Ebooks Questions Post

[elf]

Ask your questions! Get answers! Maybe even useful answers!

Ask anything! Ask about ereaders, or filetypes, or conversion methods, or where to find books, or which authors don't like ebooks, or what software works on which computers, or anything else ebook-related. Preferably, put the question, or part of it, in the subject line. That way, the questions will be easy to find, and new readers who show up can see if their question has been asked before.

Feel free to post links to your journal where you've spelled out your questions in detail (or just make a new post here; it's totally fine to make a long post about "thinking about ebook readers; what's the pros & cons of these two?")

Answer questions! If you know about a certain aspect of ebookery, jump in with answers!

Comments

Re: AO3 bug with epub files?

[elf]

I've run across it a couple of times.

Always happens on ebooks with pictures, presumably because the picture is a link rather than imported into the book; the Sony freezes trying to follow the link.

It might happen with other weird coding or links; I haven't found it consistent enough to figure out what files have problems.

Sony has a limit on the size of HTML it can deal with inside the epubs, but if they're using Calibre as the conversion engine, it'd automatically split them into smaller-than-300kb pieces.

Re: AO3 bug with epub files?

[jumpuphigh]

I've had it happen with files that don't have pictures so that isn't the only cause. I think I might just have to convert all my AO3 fics prior to sideloading for the time being.