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  Thom28 August 1, 2021 at 1:26pm

  William Warren,

  Thanks for uploading the Mikey Spillane books. Enjoyable reading.
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  Thom28 August 1, 2021 at 1:25pm

  Riklaaa,

  Thank you for the invite to join this group.
• mark nilbux February 13, 2013 at 2:48pm

  Calibre is a great program. Ive found that when  converting some text based items- like Word documents - that converting to HTML  first and then ..in my case to MOBI... keeps formatting as in the original.
• mark nilbux February 12, 2013 at 2:30am

  There are some great books available here. Many thanks. Ive greatly enjoyed some of the detective titles that have been shared. Does anyone have any Maigret ?
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  Anson (Bob) Roberts February 2, 2013 at 11:35pm

  Calibre has a lot of text-training and fine-tuning features I didn't test
  that probably would have greatly improved my output, but I like to
  see how programs perform on the Bonneville Salt Flats, with the
  steering wheel cinched tight with a bungee cord and a cinder block
  leaning on the gas pedal.

  I'll bet yoiu're not much for instruction manuals, either. :>)

  NO program will reproduce graphic PDFs (which is how Gutenberg renders mathematical and scientific treatises without some manual correction, even after training the program. In any event, most e-readers do just fine with the original PDF.

  an't the Nook read them?
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  Tim Szeliga February 2, 2013 at 8:58am

  Just a warning: Calibre may be a universal translator, but the output
  can be riddled with misprints and typos.  I grabbed some books from
  Project Gutenberg in PDF format and ran them thru Calibre to convert
  to EPUB, to put on my Nook.  [Options are limited at PG and math & sci
  hold up better than old-timey fiction, imho.] 

  It may be fine for simple fiction, typeset in Times New Roman, left- and
  right-justified.  I tried some math and science books and it was all over the place.  Footnotes, forget it.  Offset equations, nope.  Boldface section headings,
  uh-uh.  Variables in italics confuse it.  m -> rn, h -> li, scannos we call 'em,
  instead of typos.

  
  I tried Newton's "System of the World" on planetary motion.  All equations garbled beyond recognition.  
  This edition retained the f as s convention.  At one point Newton is
  discussing the moons of Jupiter, and the evidence of my lenses. 
  
  OK, he's talking about telescope observations -- then I shook my head and saw it should be senses.  I had to skip, omit and translate errors as I went along
  throughout the text.

  The Gutenberg material is rigorously proofread as simple ASCII and PDF, 
  but doesn't get involved in these silly VHS vs Betamax format wars.
  
  Calibre has a lot of text-training and fine-tuning features I didn't test
  that probably would have greatly improved my output, but I like to
  see how programs perform on the Bonneville Salt Flats, with the
  steering wheel cinched tight with a bungee cord and a cinder block
  leaning on the gas pedal.  
• Jack Adams January 16, 2013 at 11:57am

  Thanks for letting me join. I'll do some exploring........Jack
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  Dave Gibson January 10, 2013 at 2:38am

  Wow! This site has gone off like a rocket. Good to see. Thanks to everyone involved. 
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  Bob Cassady January 8, 2013 at 11:49am

  This looks good. Thank you for the e-book program. I would never have known about it without you. As always amazing work.
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  Anson (Bob) Roberts January 8, 2013 at 12:19am

  Amazon also offers a free reader for your PC or Mac that reads its Kindle (.mobi) books. I find it a bit better than Calibre for this purpose, although Calibre is my go-to for all other formats.

  Bob