@bookstodon #ebooks #pulp #mystery
Dead Ernest: Alice Tilton was a pseudonym of Phoebe Atwood Taylor. Taylor wrote the Asey Mayo Cape Cod mysteries; Tilton did the Leonidas Witherall books.
All as soft-boiled as a poached egg, full of crazy action and humour.
Just a great fun beach read or similar, these are hard to find now. Some are appearing as amateur #epubs, like this one.
http://library.lol/fiction/1E013BF6E49E4EFA0785FECB1E9F32DE
Or you can read iffy scans at IA.

@MikePalumbo @bookstodon The Woman in Skin 13 by Gerald Vance. (Fantastic Adventures June 1952)
Scarlet Dream by C. L. Moore 1947 (Avon Fantasy Reader #5)
The Illegitimate Egg by Genevieve Haugen (Fantastic magazine May 1958)
Trouble on Circuit 13 by Robert J. McCaig (Black Mask January 1949)
Where to find? #InternetArchive if you like brown pdfs or #libgen where there are good #epubs of them.
Thousands of great stories in these old publications.

Uma boa notícia para quem usa #eBooks:

Depois de mostrar as #Capas nos arquivos #EPUBs, o #Kindle agora também começou a mostrar as Capas nos #PDFs. 🤓

Pelo que percebi, ele busca a primeira imagem no #Livro, que nem sempre corresponde à Capa. E, às vezes, ela fica desconfigurada... Mas já é um começo! 🙆‍♀️

#Literatura
#Livros #MastoLivros
#OsLivrosDeMaria

PS: Me lembrei agora que eu sempre converto meus Arquivos Pdf para o formato Kindle... Não sei se sem a conversão as Capas também aparecerão.

📘📲 Finalmente as #Capas dos #EPUBs estão aparecendo no #Kindle... Que alegria! 😆

#eBook
#eBooks
#Livros
#LivrosDigitais
#Literatura

@ghose@mastodon.gal @socjo @PNeurona @Jordi_Tell gràcies! Miraré això que dius d'enviar #epubs a la #Kindle. M'estalviaria un pas en tot el procés.

KWL – 226 – All About Vellum with Brad West https://kobowritinglife.com/2020/12/15/kwl-226-all-about-vellum-with-brad-west/ #KWLPodcast #software #Vellum #epubs #ePub #KWL

Éditions #Libertalia (@LibertaliaLivre): "Pour saluer #DavidGraeber (1961-2020). Voici, en accès libre, les fichiers #ePubs et #PDF du #livre "Les Pirates des Lumières ou la véritable histoire de Libertalia". https://www.editionslibertalia.com/blog/david-graeber-les-pirates-des-lumieres-en-telechargement-libre @nikadubrovsky" | nitter – https://nitter.net/LibertaliaLivre/status/1301848130217009157#m

Almost all of the books that I read are #epubs.

I have a #bookshelf, but the only books on it are more like artwork than for #reading. 1st editions only. 2nd editions need not apply

Why? The books on the shelf are an altar to the authors I love.

38% through #SnowCrash Back on the tablet now that it is charged.

While I don't use it that often in this way, I'm quite impressed with #Calibre when it comes to reading #epubs using the content server. This means if I'm desperate to read an ebook on my phone I can read it in a browser rather than having to install #FBReader on it.

Obviously I have to be within WiFi range of the laptop, but it's a small price to pay, when the tablet needs charging.

Ok, something else for publishers of #ebooks that I find rather daft...

#epubs that have images of text for chapter headings, cf. attached.

Why do that? It's not even transparent, being a jpg, it can't be. Why not just use the actual text, like the rest of the book.

I have no problem with pictures for chapter headings, in fact I go out of my way to make sure they work correctly in my ebook reader app of choice, but that image as a chapter title is just DAFT!

I would like to see an #ereader for those of us who only read #epubs that we download. No internet needed, just a file and a few hours to read. Anything like that exist?

How could I get started hacking my #Kobo Aura 2?

Turns out some other stuff needed fixing too, but all done now. So I can get back to reading #AmericanGods with centered chapter headings and epigraphs.

#ebooks #epubs

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The thing I hate... No, one of the things I hate about sorting out #epubs so that they look the way I want them is when the author or publisher creates a load of logical CSS selectors, with sensible names and everything, but then fails to use them in the correct places in the epub.

Case in point, someone kindly created a 'chapterEpigraphText' class and a 'chapterOpenerText' class in this epub, and then inconsistently used them, so I have to go through and correct their mistakes!:*

#Sigil is built, checked that the plugins will work, ready to get back to messing with #epubs

Just need to restore my Calibre library

#Ubuntu