Closed Circle Lives!
After vowing never to darken the door of one of our software security providers again, and reinstalling every single product code 62 times—we have a counter—we are live! If you meet the “Come Back Again” sign, hit the ‘refresh’ button on your browser and reality should reveal itself.
Browse! Enjoy!
We did it!
I’ll bet I can tell you how to get Bing off your browser. It’s a toolbar. And if you go to the righthand-lower top toolbar on the IE top bars, right next to the ? in a blue circle, you’ll see “Tools” _–use THAT “tools” command, and go to “toolbars”, click that, and just start kicking spare toolbars off, watching what disappears until you’re rid of Bing. Don’t kick off the little bar that’s got your “tools” command, however, because that creates at least a 30 minute search for the way to get it back.
Great news on 2 fronts! When confronted once more
with the closed sign I punted. The reload, AKA
refresh,worked and opened the door! I’m also very
grateful for CJ’s help with the ‘Bing Thing’ and
am memorizing her instructions(don’t kick off the little bar that’s got your “tools” command):lol:
You know,they really do resist my every effort!
Success here, too. Faery Moon and Groundties both look good on my Sony Touch at first glance, and the purchase and download process worked well. (We’ll ignore some issues with a Sony eBook Library software upgrade that didn’t work well at all; not your fault.)
Congrats! And thanks.
*pop!* *pop!* *pop!*
^ ^ ^ Can you hear all the champagne corks popping in NYC?!?
A toast to CC and all 3 of you! See you in ~2 days & we’ll pop some corks in RL!
Yay—d’you know the pond has clear ice—we could manage a 3 turn out there without falling in—but hitting the rock border would be a PITA.
I haven’t read every comment, so I may be repeating. If refresh won’t do it, clear your browser’s cache. In Firefox it’s in the tools menu. Worked for me.
Please tell Jane that I would post to The Captain & Lime, but am on my laptop & can’t recall the password to her site. Will do it when I get home to my desktop — but in the interim pls convey to her my hopes that she got some well-earned sleep today, after all the many, many hours she has spent on this project! She is a MACHINE!
Azureblu, I have to laugh at your smiley problems — they do seem out to get you, and they’re supposed to be such friendly guys. This time, I think you need to be sure there’s a space before the colon. 😀
Good to see progress!
Grabbed GroundTies. Unzipped fine. Minor nit, only the epub version has author name, all the others have title then unknown in the filename.
Oooh, saw an .rb version! Oops, doesn’t work. Ends up a one page ‘book’ with nothing on it but a lower case y with two dots over it. Sigh.
So, there’s an rtf. But, in both Word 2002 AND WordPerfect 10 all the ‘, “, em dash, elipses, and the copyright symbol are ?
Clicked on the prc file. Kindle for PC opened it and all symbols are as they should be. Double checked with Mobipocket Reader. All good there.
So, the txt version. Hmm, it is Unicode UTF-8. The ‘ and ” and copyright symbol are fine. Looks like the em dash is replaced with a single hyphen and the elipses with spaced out . . .
Yes: Calibre will let us install meta data (author name) just fine for .epub, but will not retain it at all for all other formats. If you can type it in, power to you, but we cannot make it absorb that data for the non-native (non .epub formats) to save our lives.
Oooh! Shiney! *Dreams of having money to spend; will put things on her Christmas list!*
Great job!
Downloaded Jane’s freebie and Faery Moon, no problems just click click click. Will read later.
Must go catch the tram for my appointment with the Optician.
I have four computers at my disposal; two with stable XP versions, one with “Atom” and one with Windows 7 plus Kindle1 and Kindle2. I have tried the .prc files on both Kindle1 and Kindle2 and they work just fine. They also work just fine on my computer-based mobireader. Tried the .lit on a computer based reader and had problem with what I thought was corrupted text. After playing around I have found that if I widen the screen sufficiently the “corruption” goes away. The lines of text are too wide for speed reading, but there is nothing wrong with the file other than no book cover. Other than the .rtf puctuation glitch, I can honestly say, I AM A HAPPY CAMPER tonight. Now I just have to be able to get up in 4 and a half hours to fly across country with my newly stocked Kindle.
Congratulations from far away!
Good work!
I wish you good success and luck with this endeavor.
If you have recovered a bit from the start and filled your shelves, I’ve one thing: Most books seem to have a blurb. But if I click “Store” on the Start Page, I reach the full “Products Page”. Clicking on a title I can see a big picture of the “Cover Image”, but not what I expected – a description what the book is about.
Example: Reading the “Product Page”. If I want to know what “Faery Moon” is about, I need to find the page “C.J. Cherryh / Fantasy” on my own … which is not a description of a single book but a list of books (containing currently only one book, but that will
probablyhopefully change soon).A page per book would be nice – with full description. And for people who want to take a look at the “cover” put that on this “single-book-description page”. And everywhere else replace the links to the cover with a link to the “single-book-description page”.
(Hope I made my self clear – if not, yell at me. But this might help selling, since it seems to be “the usual aproach” in online shops.)
CJ,I discovered that the only toolbar I have for
IE is ,actually Firefox! Not my programming(well
I guess that’s obvious,I can’t even get a grinning yellow circle to behave!). I plan on doing some detective work on that matter.
Meanwhile,I truly admire the artwork through out the closed circle! The entry door is superb.
AbigailM, There was a space when I typed it but
my laptop does funny(Not HAHA)things to anything that I type AFTER I hit send,submit or select.
Looks wonderful!
When I’m not at work, I’ll come back and spend some money. Really hope this works out so well for you all!
Heya, managed to purchase & download ‘Faery Moon’ with no difficulty. Yay! Thanks. Great work. Good to see all the effort in getting the steps lined up is coming together.
I have a Q though about the RTF version included in the zip. It seems to have substituted a question mark for all single and double quotes. Is it just my PC? Am I going crazy – always a possibility, I’ll grant! 🙂 Also, if I try to copy and paste the PDF version to Word, it doesn’t display the text, just boxes. Is that deliberate? Part one of the Writer’s guide did not seem to do that.
Ah, sorry, should have read earlier posts more closely, the ‘?’ problem’s been reported by mtz322. Cheers, I.
IT’s good to have confirmation. THis conversion thing is useful to know—IF Rtf is behaving badly, we may need to change the conversion sequence, and take it directly from the .wpd files (our native format: right now we’re turning .prc into .rtf and .txt) and also do the .txt files from that source. I really don’t know what’s going on with Word, but bizarre.
One of the problems is that one of the ongoing ‘matters’ in Groundties is that everybody is ‘wired in’ and communicating with persons not there, and each type of communication has its own typeface and symbol-set. It’s imho a brilliant use of typography and what it’s like to be that ‘wired in’, (written, mind you, back during DOS and before cellphones were much at all)—but it’s a pita to get .txt to handle the nuances. Jane’s going to be looking at that situation and seeing if she can devise a translation protocol that will help convey the same thing.
It does indeed look (and work) great.
I happily purchased the New Brothers + Faery Moon.
I look forward to more.
Just sayin…..
Oooh yeah! I’ve looked; it looks great. When I get my ethernet cables and router working at home (work fast, US mail) I’ll do a little shopping for my shiny new laptop. Great Stuff, and I’m glad to see Jane’s new vampire book. I know people who will have to have it. I have some flyers left from this spring; I saved them until the site was ready. It’s finals week here; I’ll leave some flyers around in places where studying people gather, to give them a good study break. Congratulations, joy, clear skies, céad mile fáilte to the site.
Oh, thanks for the flyer distribution! and joy indeed! We actually got some sleep last night, though I ate cookies and created a sugar high that had me waking up at 12, at 1, at 2, 3, 5 and 7. Still—I was actually abed at those hours, which was really good.
Do you have a flyer file one can download? – I could distribute a few.
Author in metadata — Since you said it was there in the epub, I thought I would import that file into my Calibre, and then convert it, as mine has not shown a problem about losing metadata. The epub came up sans title. But when I started to type it in, I got no further than the capital C before the blank filled itself in properly, as if it just needed to be reminded. I have at least one other author in my library whose name begins with C, so it wasn’t just filling in the only available C-name.
The equal sign instead of apostrophe is still in “make a contribution to the author=s and artists’ livelihood.”
David’s painting will not shrink enough to be seen on a single page in the Calibre viewer. I haven’t loaded it into my Cybook to see how that works yet.
All these quibbles aside, IT WORKS! I CAN READ THE STORY! 😀
Sorry, I didn’t make clear that all those comments referred to Faery Moon.
Taking notes. I usually load my meta stuff into the e-pub version—it apparently retained it somehow.
Rats on the author’s glitch.
And I’ll look into that image problem.
Got the free downloads and opened them successfully! A MAJOR accomplishment for me to do on my own. Again THANK YOU ALL! Wish I did not have to go to my day job.