Forum: Bug Report and Feature Requests

An idea was floated, found to be impracticable and dropped and forgotten.

That is an acceptable end of the discussion for me.

Also, your suggested location codes don't cover High Fantasy and Science Fiction stories that don't take place on Earth.

Like other categories and category types, there would be no compulsion to use them. In any case it looks like the idea died before gaining its first breath of life.

the to do list

I presume your 'to do' list would be considered cruel by Zeus, even for Sisyphus..??

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Part of the To-do list. Big items:

Eight items, eight hours in the average work day, so what are you doing tomorrow?

:)

Your problem is self created. You've done so much with SoL et al for so long, and deal with issues so quickly that you are now expected to do everything almost instantaneously.

To-do

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Oh god no....That's basically wanting to turn SoL into a comic....

What's wrong with (heavily) illustrated stories? Even 'real' comics or picture books can offer a nice read. It's just not popular on SOL, or I should say, not many authors here are into illustrating their books. Comics have huge audiences on several very popular sites. The thing is, almost all are in their own rather specific genre. SOL could offer a separate section for a greater variety of comics... if there were authors to post them.

Some content posted at the moment is borderline spam. At the very least the posts could be collected (collated?) into one post, a bit like the joke post.

That's an opinion apparently not shared by too many other readers otherwise Lazeez would have been buried under complaints. Since there are several illustrated stories that have not been banned just for their illustrations shows that they are not considered spam.

Well said..!!

When was the last time you tried one of your EPUBs?

More important ;) When are the covers/illustrations also included in the zip's?

The zip archives are html files and the image tags are left in them. If you open the file in a browser as it's intended for, then the browser should load the images off the internet.

Yep, I know, but that doesn't do any good if you are reading off-line. I ALWAYS read off-line on my very old tablet that is permanently disconnected from the internet but otherwise works fine. So I have to download all images separately and change the image urls.

That tablet can't handle EPUBs?

It can, but I download the zips and have the conversion to my custom library fully automated, including rewriting the image urls. I find reading chapters in html much better than the continues 'page' of epubs and I can add features like tooltips (acronyms!), maps, images, floorplans, etc as I want. I even convert the epubs I buy from Bookapy to html, or rather, I copy the html from Bookapy after I bought the book and convert that to my custom library.

You can convert the EPUB to html with Calibre. And since calibre is useable through the command line, it should be easy to incorporate it into a pre-existing work flow.

Nope, the resulting html is a huge mess and more than twice as big as the clean html and css my custom conversion produces. It works fine but having the images in the zip would eliminate the step to download the images separately. It just feels like the zip downloads are not complete without the cover images. If the epubs from now on contain all illustrations I'm thinking about downloading both the zip and epub and than extract the images from the epub. That shouldn't be too difficult.