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I want to build an e-book server for my class
Our school has some ebooks.
We want to build a server, to allow our students to login and read those ebooks online; we also want our students to be able to highlight some text in order to comment and ask questions, so other students and teachers can…
user9963
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How to read DjVu files on Kindle?
I want to be able to read DjVu files on my kindle. I don't want to convert DjVu to PDF or MOBI. Is there a way I can do this?
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How to convert a html ebook to a pdf file?
Is there some program which can convert a html ebook (consisting of many html files located under different directories and linked to each other) to a pdf file?
For example, some shell scripting (e.g. in bash) which calls some program that does the…
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Move image to top of the page (like LaTeX’s \begin{figure}[t])
Before I start, let me be clear about what I’m not trying to do:
I’m not trying to keep particular text on the same page as an image.
I’m not trying to force a page break before an image.
That said, I’m looking for the approximate equivalent of…
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Looking for recommendation on eBook reader for university textbooks
I'm looking for a eBook reader to carry around with me for studying and reading science textbooks and papers. I was interested in kindle because of the e-ink technology. Briefly what I'm looking is :
I don't want a bright, eye-soaring tablets…
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What symbols/text to use for index references?
An index in a printed book would look like this:
Concept A: 5, 17
Concept B: 25, 41, 83
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In an ebook the page numbers would be replaced by hyperlinks. The question is what text/symbols to use for the hyperlinks. One option I thought is to…
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Different copyright notices on printed and digital versions of a book
What are the implications of having the digital version of a thesis carry a licence that differs from that of its printed copy deposited in a library?
I am distributing my thesis online under a CC license, but when the printed version was first…
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How to add my own ebooks in mobi format to be displayed in Kindle app on Android
In older versions of Android/Kindle App, it used to be enough to drop any .mobi files into the 'kindle' folder on SD Card, but in latest version of Kindle app, they still don't show up as books on 'On Device'. Did that location change, or is this…
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How to check easily MD5 signatures for Humble-Bundle ebooks?
Humble-Bundle has a book section that sells weekly ebooks bundles. They
are very professional and provide a MD5 signature for each file, i.e.,
for each format of each book title. This makes it easy to check ebook files integrity, i.e., that
the…
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Epub without a Table of Contents, is it possible?
Ideally, I'd like to not have a ToC. But I understand that without one, an epub won't validate. Is there any way to create a ToC with no content, including no ToC header?
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What is the best way to scan paper books to digital ebooks?
To make a long story short, me and my daughter have ALOT of paper books, and we would like to find a app that would let us "scan" the book in a digital format that can be used with my Kindle Fire, so we are not forced to haul around the actual book.…
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Create an e-book with Devanagari characters
I'm trying to create an e-book (in English) with Devanagari characters.
I've transformed these particular characters into their unicode, so I do not have to use a Sanskrit font.
The book was edited with InDesign and from this I created a first…
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Downscaled screenshots of HTML tables look blurry. Why?
My EPUB contained many HTML tables, many of which would break on small screens. I therefore took screenshots of the tables and inserted the images into the EPUB in place of the HTML tables.
I just viewed my EPUB on Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) for…
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Is it possible to set Calibre Editor to automatically backup a book file before modifying it?
Pretty much as the title says, is it possible to set Calibre to automatically create a backup copy of a given .epub file before editing it?
When experimenting, it would be handy to keep the original file untouched.
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Kindle "Time Left in Book"
I have a Paperwhite, and I like to have 'percentage left' on the page as I am reading. To switch this on, I have to go to Font size and select from a pull-down menu. Once the Kindle switches off, I have to reset that when I start again.
Is there…
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