Awright! I refuse, absolutely refuse to admit what I forgot to do. Too many irons in the fire is my only excuse and even I’m not buying that. But the download should now work! If it doesn’t…wait ten minutes before telling me. I wanna go take a shower! :D—>J
THE BUTTON ISN”T WORKING YET: WE ARE POSTING RIGHT NOW DON”T CLICK IT yet!!!! Here, my friends, is the first freebie download. It’s a zip of Closed Circle’s first publication, and I need feedback. The request for name and e-mail? We’re puzzled by that too, but that’s the way the downloader wants to work, and we just toss it. It will send you an e-mail with the link, then forget the address. It will come from something called your-domain, but that’s us. We’ll fix that later. Now it sends it from ” authors@closed-circle.net ” so be sure to prepare your spam filter and declare us to be friendlies, or ‘trusted’, or it will almost certainly stick in your spam filter. The transmission should be instantaneous, so if you don’t find it in the next few seconds, it’s in the spam filter.
I’m already aware of a couple of glitches in the ‘reverse of the title page’ of the epub version, which don’t manifest in the mobi version, plus a duplication of the signature image, and a strange page break on the first of the text. I think I know where they come from, and I’m going to fix it. What I need to know is whether these artifacts are showing up in other types of files: FB2, RTF, LIT, etc. And if you are detecting more glitches further on in the epub files or find any in the Mobi files.
Just unzip the omnifile, pick your file type, and load that file into your reader. Then tell me what you know. I hope you will enjoy the little book.
  The Writing Life: A Writer’s Journal Vol 1
It starts sedately, in 2004, as we attempt to survive a very warm fall; and proceeds through computer misfortunes and a comedy of disasters: my book in question is likely Pretender. And trying to write—well, when people ask me how do I find time to write, I think the answer is—it’s a mystery. FREE!
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It DOES work – woohoo! Opened the PDF file just fine (have Windows XP and a 4 year old laptop, nothing fancy). I’m giddy!
PDF works great on the Mac using Preview. Will run through the other formats tomorrow.
Sig page is a nice touch (but is smaller than the other pages).
Thank you. It shouldn’t be smaller. Mmm. PDF, another sig page problem. One in e-Pub, one in PDF. Were you using wide or book-size view?
THose of you using computers can download mobipocket reader and/or Calibre over on <--- the left sidebar of this page. Once those are installed on your computer, a click on the filename (.prc for the mobi or EPUB for the Epub reader) will bring up the software and give you a reader-like 'book' with turn-page arrows you can manage. The e-Pub has a wide and a narrow aspect, so if you want book-size lines, just hit the toggle on the left sidebar and it will change instantly.
As a MAC user the TXT, RTF, and PDF files opened with no problem.
Downloaded perfectly! PDF in Preview on an iMac gives different sig page sizes as mentioned above:
Single Page > normal size sig page
Single Page Continuous > smaller sig page
Two Pages > smaller sig page
Two Pages Continuous > smaller sig page
Weird! Thank you for the info.
The Mobi opens just fine with Amazon’s Kindle PC application. This is a new app and allows you to read their books on your PC. It also works with .prc, it seems. This is good to know.
TXT opens with Word 2007. And Adobe 9.2 has no trouble with the PDF.
AmazonKindle App on PC: author’s livelihood shows up as author=s livelihood.
Yep, I think I know why. Thanks!
12/30/03 “update” shows up as “…up” then spaces to the end of that line (might be called a line break?) then the next line starts with “Date: “.
Lovely!
The mobi viewed in Calibre is just fine. When the RTF is opened in Appleworks or TextEdit on my Mac, the apostrophes are question marks. This is routine for me; evidently Apple handles some character codes in some non-friendly way. You would think by this time it would be fixed …
[oops…erm…manners must have gone with memory…} Thank you for the present!
Lol! Thank you. 🙂
At home using my old iBook G4 laptop running Panther – OX 10.3.9.
I have a new MacbookPro but it does not yet have net access.
Download was fine; RTF and TXT opened and were readable. TXT had all the text pushed to the left, especially the title page. I don’t know what the signature page looks like – nothing seems evident on TXT or RTF. Preview, the mac pdf program, would not open for me. I suspect my OS is too old; I can’t use Calibre because the OS is too old. That’s why I bought a new computer.
It is possible that old systems, like mine, may have trouble with formats in general. TXT is readable, as is RTF. That may be all people with really old systems – I think I bought mine in 2003 – can reasonably expect. I have a PC running Windows 98 SE, but I can’t try anything there – it has not had a net connection since 2004.
And another oops – the “update” issue is in eReader on the iMac.
I seemed to download EPUB ok as well as your book. But, for the life of me I can’t open any of the files except the cover.
I’m certain it is me & not anything to do w/ you. I have minimal clue about what I am doing. Sigh. I’ll have you help me with it later…
OSG, you are running Calibre? You need Calibre to see EPub.
Wait. “Any of the files?” In the Calibre operation there is only one file, the one inside the ePub folder. There should be no separate cover file. It can also read the PRC one or the Generic Epub or the plain Epub.
FBReader (latest version being 0.10.7) on my WinXP laptop displays all of the E-BOOK formats just fine, although the title page tends to be missing. It doesn’t state which file you are viewing, though, but only the met information. Will test on my mobile tomorrow.
Addition to my post; the RTF file opened beautifully with Mariner Write, a program for Macs that usually handles Word and WordPerfect files well. All your text has lovely blue lines around it, giving nice margins The text looks good, although the sentence on the first page So it begins, sparsely,and on is in bold. It looks like a little heading to the rest of the text but it is not separated from the previous paragraph by any spacea
Great.
I tested and opened it just fine. Decided on pdf format in Preview (part of Apple operating system–don’t even really need adobe reader, though I have it downloaded on the machine). Im sure I could have opened other formats too. But the results were perfect.
Bizarre. I’ll get better. The main thing is getting really, really, really clean HTML to start with. And the advice somebody gave me about installing * marks—nope. The program thinks those are chapters. Sigh.
I just spent 4 hours wrestling with book 2, and it turned out the program was screwed, possibly by Norton coming on and freezing several programs, necessitating a reboot during construction of the book. Sigh. Sob.
I’m so tired.
But happy. It’s working better than I hoped. At least most everybody can see words.
“At least most everybody can see words.”
YES! That is the key test, seeing words! You are great!
I didn’t realize I needed to download Calibre also. See, I *told* you I had no idea what I was doing!
😆 (I laugh because OSG and I know each other well, and I know OSG is blind-tired from work) You will find it behaving a lot better if you run it through Calibre!
And while you’re at it go ahead and download Mobipocket Reader: it’s a good reader, and will handle PRC files quite nicely!
Either one of them—if you have them installed on your computer, and you just doubleclick the file name of an EPUB file, it will automatically install itself on Calibre–(you then push VIEW to get its Reader going)—or you click on a mobi file and Mobipocket Reader will leap to life and run it in a very nice little book-shaped reader.
I had to ask for it twice, because both the hypervigilant spam blockers on Hotmail and Thunderbird thought it was junk mail. At least Thunderbird gave me the option of telling it that no, this was not spam, and I would like my folder, please. After a few more downloading and unzipping hoops, I was able to open it just fine with Acrobat. I remember following the trials and tribulations when you and Jane were looking for a house and eventually found one, having done just that less than two years prior, and am having a vicarious victorious relive. Thank you for the happy memories!
PC Vista to mobipocket so smooth thanks for the freebie.
hooray! it works! … after downloading a new un-zipper I just opened it as a pdf and read it on adobe reader, I am not really set up for e-books, but that’s fine … 🙂 thank you!
Yay! It works! How very cool is that!
Vista to Palm eReader via PDB easy as.
Format-wise, for the little Palm, there are a few too many empty lines for my taste, but hey that’s personal taste. Next I’ll try a format conversion. Thank you so much!!