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PC version of Nook software needs to restart after coming out of sleep mode
I am running Nook for PC v. 2.5.5.9347 (local software only, not the tablet) under Windows 7. It seems to work fine, but if I shut the lid on my laptop, and later open it up again, Nook puts up ...
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How can I convert a Daisy-formatted ebook to epub? [closed]
I own a Kobo Touch, and there are some books available online in the Daisy format that I'd like to read on my Kobo.
The book is also available in PDF format, but I'd much rather have it in epub ...
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How can I produce a single document for a multitude of formats and screen sizes?
I've been writing a Word document that I want to distribute online. However, I want the document to be accessible to everyone, including
People who want to print it on A4/Letter from PDF. Note that ...
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Importing/converting non-MOBI documents into Kindle application without a Kindle device
According to Amazon's website their Kindle Personal Documents Service allows me to email PDF and HTML documents to my Kindle account to have them converted and imported as MOBI. However, the email ...
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Are there any current ebook cataloging management software that is able to retrieve amazon tags?
By amazon tags I am specifically referring to "Tags Customers Associate with This Product"
I have tried the latest versions of Calibre, Data Crow and eLibrary, but none seem to have such an option.
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Ebook management: alternatives to Calibre that catalog/access files in their original location
I am looking for something like Calibre that allows me to access and assign tags to existing pdf or other ebook files without having to modify/move/copy any of them, on Windows. This is because many ...
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CHM to MOBI conversion image quality
I tried to use Calibre to convert ebooks from CHM to MOBI format for my 6" Kindle. Although the conversion is successful in keep the table of contents, links etc., the image qualities are very bad. ...
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Change the language of a mobi file
I converted some German-language ePub files to MOBI, using calibre, in order to read them on my Kindle. The problem is, when reading the resulting file, the Kindle only looks up words in the English ...
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How to open & print a ebook in Daisy format on windows?
I've downloaded this book: ONE TWO THREE … INFINITY FACTS & SPECULATIONS OF SCIENCE (1947) from archive.org which is zip archive of some set of files.
I'm on windows, I want to read it. How can ...
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Converting different file formats to ebook-supported formats
I'm just getting started with my shiny new Kindle. The main purpose I have for it is to be able to conveniently read a lot of fiction freely (and legally) available on the internet.
For this purpose, ...
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Can I download a book from a non amazon website and read it in my Amazon Kindle For Mac App?
I want to download this book and read it using Amazon Kindle for Mac.
Is this possible or does Amazon Kindle for mac only allow books bought directly from Amazon store?
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Are there any alternatives to Sigil? [closed]
I have been using Sigil to edit epub (eBook format) files. However, it is excruciatingly slow on Windows and Linux. After doing some research, I found other people are complaining about it too. ...
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What is the difference between a paginated and a non-paginated PDF/DjVu file?
I heard that some PDF or DjVu files are not paginated. Pagination would help adding bookmarks to these files. All PDF and DjVu files I have seen are files consisting of pages of content.
So I wonder ...
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Software to organize my ebook readings
I´m looking for a software that let me organize my readings of ebooks. Not only to organize my ebook collection, but also to keep track the book, pages or chapters in wich i am.
I read a lot of ...
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Script firefox to print to PDF
I like finetuning my ebooks to make them look really nice, and since my e-reader has limited justification capabilities (that is, it's really bad at justifying text), I usually print my html books as ...
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Font and other considerations when writing a book [closed]
Which font are mainly using writers, while writing a Book and also what things should be kept in mind while being a Writer.
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Software to make ebook read like book style
Is there any software out that makes a normal ebook read like book style, where you can flip the pages?
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eBook to JAR format for mobile phone
Is there any way I can convert my eBooks to .jar files? Even if the "eBook" is simply a .txt file. (Calibre can convert between various eBook formats, including .txt and HTML. It has the best ...
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Convert any PDF to an ebook?
What is the most reliable way to convert any text-containing PDF to a reflowable format without errors?
Including OCR'd scans?
Any platforms welcome.
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Export import calibre database
I am using calibre for my e-book management software. Is there any way to export import whole database (Tags, tiles, authors list), so that I can import to another machine?
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Tutorial or How-To's for ABBYY? Specifically, on the 'Style Editor'
I'm using ABBYY 10 (with a license from my school), and it seems like there are features I'm not utilizing. Specifically, I want to know all I can do with styles.
For example how to get ABBYY to ...
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EBook reader with built in dictionary?
While reading literature text on my computer, I usually come across many words which I don't understand. It's pain to constantly switch from for eg. Adobe Reader to Google Dictionary.
So, I am ...
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Downloading computer ebooks [closed]
Does anyone have any experience with downloading computer science ebooks with bittorrent? are they good to read?
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Create ebooks from books
I have seen that there are many ebooks available on web. How are they created from a book or do you actually write one by hand? If they capture an image from a book, how are the fonts made copyable?
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Feature-rich, mature e-book management software [closed]
I need an ebook management software that can easily organize my ebook collection and have built in book reader. Mostly I have pdf files.
I want these features:
It can read the metadata like ...
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Merge several HTML pages (linked from a TOC) into one SICP book
I want to create a big webpage from each of the links in the HTML Table-Of-Content page of the SICP book. The resulting HTML file must contain the chapters in adequate order.
I am looking for ...
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Scanning Books: Organizing knowledge
I'm scanning several volumes of music theory books. Apart from creating one pdf/djvu for each book, I want to logically organize the contents, across volumes, in a searchable, collectable way. (No ...
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Which framework /Platform do I have to create interactive ebooks + videos?
im sorry if its not fit to this forum , but say I like to create interactive ebook , what I mean is
Digital book like ordinary ebook but with options to show videos and be able to validate readers ...
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Convert web pages to one file for ebook
I want to download HTMLs (example: http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus6/) and join it to one HTML or some other format that i can use on ebook reader. Sites with free books don't have standard paging, ...
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Batch convert lit -> txt [convert from one text format to another in a batch]
Is there a tool to BATCH! convert a folder of lit files to a different, plain-text would be the best choice, format?
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How to make the first page of a PDF display by itself and the succeeding pages display two-up?
When creating an e-book using Adobe Acrobat 8.2.1 on OS X 10.6.5, is there a way to make Adobe Acrobat (or Adobe Reader) display the pages as follows:
p1
p2 p3
p4 p5
p6
rather than:
p1 ...
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Make an eBook out of a Website
Suppose that I find a interesting Website (having around 50 pages)
Suppose that I want to read it offline on my ebook device
How can i do it ?
I can download the website through HTTrack and then
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Ebook stamper for ePub and/or Kindle formats?
I've published an ebook in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. I sell this ebook DRM free and take what I consider a friendlier/less obtrusive approach of using a service to "stamp" the customer's name and ...
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how to remove background layer of djvu file
I've downloaded some files from the Internet Archive. They come in different file formats and most of the time I use pdf. However, sometimes the scans are saves in colour instead of b/w. This makes it ...
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Syncing between “Kindle for PC” and “Kindle for iPhone”
I have a number of ebooks that I am managing using calibre - E-book management. These books are in a number of various formats (pdf, chm, epub, mobi...etc). I found a blog post that detailed using ...
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Portable Application (Software) for reading Epub in Windows XP
I need a program that can display EPUB documents and which does NOT need to be instaleld (i.e., portable application) for Windows XP.
I've seen other similar threads: ePub reader for Windows but the ...
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Best way/format to convert a PDF to be able to read on android?
I have a pdf ebook, a Technical book that conatins a lot of code.
Reading it as pdf is slow plus reflowing text in the pdf reader removes all the formatting.
I tried converting it to epub using ...
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Good software for Ebooks Gallery
I like the iTunes eBook Gallery feature. But,
it doesn't remember the page that I reading on, when closing the eBook.
have some limitation in categorizing the eBooks.
Is there any similar ...
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Can you recommend me a program to organize my ebook collection?
I have many pdf and djvu books on my PC (ebooks, datasheets, manuals, scans etc).
Can you recommend me a software to organize my collection of books (like there is a software to organize music ...
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Windows 7 ebook reader with cloud syncing - .mobi, .epub, .pdf
What software are available for reading .mobi, .epub and .pdf files on a Windows 7 PC? (free or paid) Cloud syncing features would be great - to have all my books and annotations synced across several ...
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is there any free software which can be used to generate .exe format Ebook?
Please advice a good software to generate .exe format Ebook /(or chm format)
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Auto-add PDFs RSS to iTunes
I have an RSS feed that published PDF files. Although I can subscribe to these in iTunes, I'd like to have them put into iTunes automatically as BOOKS and not as Podcasts.
Rather than manually do ...
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What's the benefit of ePub over other ubiquitous formats?
With the recent eBook reader craze (iPad, Kindle, et al.) this newfangled format called ePub seems to have caught on when other established formats already exist:
PDF: for fixed, page-centric layout ...
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easiest way to (download and) convert HTML-structures into EPUB?
How would one (download and) convert HTML-structures into EPUB (or any other format suitable for the Sony PRS-505 reader)?
My question is not how to convert a single HTML file into an EPUB file, as ...
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How to convert pdf to txt easily?
My kindle3 will arrive tomorrow, and I have plenty of PDF files that I want to read on it.
I would like to convert them to txt so I can adjust the font size.
Is there any convenient way to do that?
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How can I get PDFs onto my iPhone?
How can I get PDF files onto my iPhone to read? I can't seem to find a way to put your own PDFs into the iBooks application from my computer.
So far, I've been putting them on my google docs account ...
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How manage music collection/ebooks on Windows?
I'm looking for ideas to organize my music collection
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Which ebook reader should someone aiming to brush up his vocabulary pick?
I am looking for an e-book reader that comes with a dictionary. If I select a word I want to get the meaning pop up, and it must be ordered by relevancy based on the context in which the word appears. ...
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Acrobat Reader & saving last page I read?
I like to read eBooks, but I tend to have a hard time keeping track on which page I am in which file. Is there a bookmark function or something similar that I'm not aware of?
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Just need a simple PDF tool on Windows to hightlight text and add notes, like the Preview program on a Mac
Since 2007, I had a Macbook and it has a program called Preview that can highlight and add notes to a PDF file. So for this 3 years, I tried to find a similar program on Windows and it looks like the ...
