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Does a screensaver serve any purpose on eink displays?
I have a Hanvon ereader with a first generation Vizplex E-ink display. The device comes with a screensaver, which just loads some pictures after some time. Does this serve a purpose, such as to prevent burn-in, similar to the purpose of screensavers…
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Are book trailers necessary?
I am about to start finalizing my first book, and I was wondering if I should make a book trailer to help promote it.
I'm not really into the whole production, but I just saw this video and realized, "... this is something I can do."
I have…
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Is there a way to share my Amazon eBook collection with other family members?
I have a decent sized collection of Amazon eBooks with a few titles that my family (siblings, parents) are interested in reading. Unfortunately, we all have our own Amazon accounts. Is there any way to share these eBooks?
We are all adults, so some…
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Why is Hard copy book black and white, but Ebook is color?
I have two textbooks I was required to purchase for Web Design classes. I noticed that the hard-copy paper book version is entirely black and white, but the ebook is all color. Aside from saving on printing costs, why would this color inconsistency…
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Problem with hyperlinks after converting chm to epub with calibre
I have a book in .chm format and I had to convert it into .epub format so I used Calibre for Windows for this operation. I am satisfied with the result except for a hyperlink problem. There are some words in the book that you click to jump to…
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What are criteria for determining whether an ebook file is pirated or non-infringing?
After reading an earlier question which was marked closed as off-topic, ( Many sites propose free or cheap ebooks? Which are legitimate? ) I want to ask it in a different way.
What are some criteria for a consumer to determine whether a…
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What are epub JSON links?
I've spotted that there are some links within the epub using a format in line with JSON
the href look like this
{"unit": "U01", "page":…
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What does FlightCrew's "Unable to find zip structure: End-of-central-directory" mean?
I am experimenting with building my own .epub files and try to validate them using FlightCrew.
Currently it says my file is invalid because it is
Unable to find zip structure: End-of-central-directory
What could this mean what could be the reason…
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Calibre viewer displays books wrong
I'm using Calibre the ebook viewer to view PDFs, DjVu, and ePub books. I don't know what version the program is, since I couldn't find any about dialog to confirm it. But I downloaded a couple of weeks ago. There was a update very recently which I…
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What are the actual on/off/sleep states for and how do you hard reset a Kindle WiFi?
I recently purchased a Kindle device (the current non Touch WiFi model) for an AP. I don't live locally but that doesn't get me off the hook for supporting it. Unfortunately, as my device is the Paperwhite, I am unable to compare with how my device…
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Legality of read-it-later services, most specifically Send to Kindle
I just got a Kindle, and the send-to-kindle applications look very appealing. I'm wondering about the legality of these read-it-later services. I know that some websites have terms saying that the content on their websites cannot be accessed by any…
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Publishing HTML to Kindle - Encoding problem
I am publishing an HTML page (a book) to Kindle using kdp.amazon.com and I encountered an encoding problem so I added:
lang="en"
to:
and…
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Any way to increase font size in Moon reader when reading pdf?
The font size when reading pdf in MoonReader is really small. Is there any way to increase it?
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Are there any e-Readers that can't surf the net?
Does anyone know of an e-Reader that doesn't have any kind of internet browser on it?
I don't care if I might need to buy an older generation of one.
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How do I repack a .mobi file?
I used Kindle Unpack in Calibre to unpack a .mobi file, so I could correct mistakes in images and text. It was easy - images were JPGs or JPEGs and text was .html or .htmlx files. Now I need to repack it all as a .mobi file and I'm stumped. The…
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