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Dragonfly ([personal profile] dragonfly) wrote in [community profile] ebooks2011-12-27 05:26 pm
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trouble downloading from AO3

So, I have a shiny new Pandigital Novel eBook reader. It reads .pdf and .epub, but whenever I try to download fanfic from the AO3 it tells me it doesn't support the format. Has anyone else had trouble downloading epubs from AO3?
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[personal profile] samvara 2011-12-28 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Are you downloading direct from the AO3 to the reader?

I'm told some readers don't recognise the AO3 'mimetype' but that there's a fix for it waiting on the next deploy.

In which case, since the fix is on the test Archive, would you be interested in trying to download an epub from Test and letting us know if it works for you? I can give you the address...

*grins* we like finding people who can text test exotic problems for us
Edited (We totally accept texts too *sigh*) 2011-12-28 01:18 (UTC)
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[personal profile] dragonfly 2011-12-28 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Why, yes, I was trying to download directly to the reader. I'm having a different issue with the driver allowing the reader to connect to my PC, so downloading directly seemed the quick solution.

I would be happy to text test the fix. I'm on AIM as nvoctober or email is dragonfly [at] mojavedragonfly [dot] org.
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[personal profile] samvara 2011-12-28 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
wh00t!

It's not some big sekrit: http://testarchive.transformativeworks.org - find yourself a work and try to download it and then me know how it goes :) If it doesn't work we'll give that info back to the person who did the fix and they'll keep working on it.
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[personal profile] dragonfly 2011-12-28 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Cool beans. Will do.
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[personal profile] dragonfly 2011-12-28 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
No luck, I'm afraid. My error message, fwiw, is "Cannot download. The content is not supported on this device." I tried three works, and I rebooted my ereader in between.

Now, this is a new toy for me, but I have successfully downloaded one other epub file today, one not on the AO3.

I'll see about downloading the files onto my PC and running them through Calibre, as others have suggested. Not that that's any help to the coders.
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[personal profile] samvara 2011-12-28 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Darn and thank you for looking! I'll feed that back to rebecca (who is working on it) and thank you again for the feedback, it's very useful for us.

May I list you as a contact for testing on a Pandigital Novel eBook reader? It would involve doing exactly what you just did and we would use whatever contact method you prefer (email, DW comment etc.)
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[personal profile] samvara 2011-12-28 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you - is dragonfly [at] mojavedragonfly [dot] org OK?
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[personal profile] dragonfly 2011-12-28 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. That's fine.
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