Novels

[J_Schmetzer]

Lifehacker has an article HERE on how to convert pdf to epub, you can probably dig up a few more with a quicker google search (And work's kinda weird about what it sites you can access, so I can't check how easy this one is to do)

Having tested Calibre (admittedly only for a short while) while it does render a functional epub, it's quite disorganized.

[Traecer Revenant]

Having tested Calibre (admittedly only for a short while) while it does render a functional epub, it's quite disorganized.

Calibre's (or indeed, any app's) conversion ability with PDFs is largely dependent on the PDF file you're trying to convert.  PDFs are not nearly as limited structurally as formats like EPUB, and they are harder to parse as a result.  PDFs that contain mostly plain text with no special layout or PDFs that have been tagged for reflow capability should be able to be converted to other formats with good results.  Untagged PDFs, graphic-intensive PDFs, and PDFs with complicated layout structure (read: gaming PDFs!) tend to turn into a mess when converted.  Thus, the results of any PDF conversion can vary depending on the how the PDF was made.

[cavingjan]

Personally I convert with mobipocket creator to get html\mobi. I have a routine to run to clean it up and it fixes the majority of the issues.

Interestingly enough, I think I can note when an editor changes things. Portions of the book just convert differently.

[Darth Nichos]

By the way, what is Shadows of Faith about? Is it the start of the Jihad and when will we get novels dealing with that event?

[Face]

Personally I convert with mobipocket creator to get html\mobi. I have a routine to run to clean it up and it fixes the majority of the issues.

Interestingly enough, I think I can note when an editor changes things. Portions of the book just convert differently.

Would you mind outlining that process over in this thread? I am trying to get info on eReaders collected and a good workflow would be nice to add.

[Traecer Revenant]

Personally I convert with mobipocket creator to get html\mobi. I have a routine to run to clean it up and it fixes the majority of the issues.

Interestingly enough, I think I can note when an editor changes things. Portions of the book just convert differently.

Entirely probable.  There will probably be extra formatting codes or other odd layout things where editing is done.  The same type of problem crops up when trying to convert a heavily edited Microsoft Word document to HTML format.

[Lorcan Nagle]

By the way, what is Shadows of Faith about? Is it the start of the Jihad and when will we get novels dealing with that event?

Yeah, the chunk of it released on BattleCorps is the lead-up to the final Whitting Conference

[GBL]

IIRC epub is essentially basic HTML or XML in a zip file or similar wrapper, if you wanted to you could hand edit any parts of it that you dont want, like images or formatting, in notepad.

[cavingjan]

Would you mind outlining that process over in this thread? I am trying to get info on eReaders collected and a good workflow would be nice to add.

I'm swamped right now but when I convert the next book, I'll document what I do and then post it. (unless I'm asked to not do that)

[Traecer Revenant]

By the way, what is Shadows of Faith about? Is it the start of the Jihad and when will we get novels dealing with that event?

Further question:  what part of Shadows of Faith is not published in the Dawn of the Jihad/Blake Ascending?  I thought most of SoF was in the opening pages of DotJ, in the section titled (appropriately enough) "Shadows of Faith."

[RAE]

Further question:  what part of Shadows of Faith is not published in the Dawn of the Jihad/Blake Ascending?  I thought most of SoF was in the opening pages of DotJ, in the section titled (appropriately enough) "Shadows of Faith."

Aside from the Blakist and Dragoon scenes in the DotJ, there are several more chapters with the Dragoons and devastation on Outreach, Thomas Marik and William Blane talking about the Master and his plans, and Victor Steiner-Davion & Co. during a ball on Arc-Royal.

[Thoth]

I must admit that I miss the novels a lot.

I am sure that there will be one or two released someday. We can hope!

Realistically though, it makes more fiscal sense to just publish them online.

[Lorcan Nagle]

I picked up First Strike today, and I have to say there's something right about having hardcopy BattleTech fiction.