On 2014-08-28 08:39, John Perry wrote:
On 8/27/2014 8:27 PM, James Knott wrote:
On 08/27/2014 05:33 PM, John Perry wrote:
So is there a linux epub reader that will handle links? Neither okular nor calibre will. I tried another, too, but I can't remember its name. The epubreader add on for Firefox will.
I use chrome; tried two extensions. Neither worked.
But I looked at Gutenberg again and downloaded the .zip. It's html, but that's not a big burden to me.
On guttenberg you can often select several download formats. For html you do not need an epub viewer. I would open in LibreOffice, format to my liking, and generate output for my preferred viewer - calibre could do that, too. Can you give a link to the particular book on Guttemberg? If I try "www.guttenberg.org" I'm told that the site is on sale. Same for guttemberg. Ah, it is "www.gutenberg.org". Yiks. :-/ Ok, looking at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36 (The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells). I see html, epub, kindle, plain text, others. On others I see "36.zip" and "36-h.zip". The former is plain text, the second one is htm. I choose to open with "calibre". Huh, no, it is getting fed the zip. So I extract first the zip, then open with calibre. [...] No, it does not work right. [...] Of course, silly me. You have to tell Calibre to convert before view. Open with LibreOffice works perfect, too. And you can easily reformat it (font, page size, etc). -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)