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Note to self. Reconverted all my AO3 files. It appears to be about a 50% fail rate.

Any notes on which ones failed? I know, can play with it myself. But knowing what fandoms or pairings to look for might help; maybe it's a cluster of authors importing from other archives, and the imports have code problems.

It's been a variety of authors and either White Collar or SGA fandom.

I'd offer links to the stories I know failed except I've already forgotten which ones they were. I'll start tracking them now, though.

Would you check and see how this file behaves on your ereader?

http://archiveofourown.org/works/110660

It is epub and it causes my ereader to restart every time I try to open it.

I reconverted it from epub to epub with calibre and now it works just fine.

Haven't tried it yet (downloaded; not installed on reader; don't have the right kind of cord with me at work & will have to track one down), but I suspect the problem is the pictures--that little dragon after the notes & before the main text, and the fanart.

Does the epub-to-epub conversion keep the images?

It doesn't but the epub directly created through AO3 doesn't have the dragon in it either so if that is the cause, what we see as a reader doesn't change but something in the code originally created is broken.

Correction: It doesn't show when I view the original in ADE but it does with calibre. But the converted one doesn't have the dragons in the calibre viewer either.

Edited (More testing) 2010-12-13 19:49 (UTC)

Can you take apart the HTML and see what the differences are? (I am css-clueless; If I had both versions, I could list the differences but not understand them.)

I have not a clue how to do that.

Epubs are zip files in funny packaging!

Rename booktitle.epub to booktitle.zip, unzip, and look at structure.

Some of the MR crowd hand-codes their ebooks. I have no idea how; every time I've tried to edit something in the unzipped version and then rezip, the resulting epub doesn't work. I don't know enough xml/css to have any idea what I'm doing wrong.

The AO3 has the following CSS code?/commands? which the calibre file does not have:

calibre6 {
height: auto;
width: auto
}

Also, cool!

That shouldn't be it at all; something inside the HTML is probably different.

And is waycool, and why epub is likely to be the dominant ebook format eventually: because really, anyone can make them with a text editor. (And code knowledge. Not even lots of code knowledge, just a bit more than I have.) And because if they're not DRM'd, anyone who knows CSS and a tiny bit of XML can fix them if they're broken.

Why don't I email you the zipped files and you can take a look? That is the only difference I found but I'm not experienced here at all.

Sure! elf @ dreamwidth.org works; I'll see if I notice any differences.

Here is another one that has failed. No pictures but there are links to LJ users so I'm guessing it's the same issue.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/131988

This one failed. I don't see any pictures or links in it.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/27975

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