Comments on: ePubGen offers conversion from RTF, Word and FB2: New open source tool http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/29/epubgen-offers-conversion-from-rtf-word-and-fb2-new-open-source-tool/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:54:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Liza Daly http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/29/epubgen-offers-conversion-from-rtf-word-and-fb2-new-open-source-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-1046979 Liza Daly Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:17:51 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/29/epubgen-offers-conversion-from-rtf-word-and-fb2-new-open-source-tool/#comment-1046979 The logo is indeed mine, and there are several variations, all in the public domain: http://threepress.org/epub/logos The logo is indeed mine, and there are several variations, all in the public domain: http://threepress.org/epub/logos

]]> By: Michael Harris http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/29/epubgen-offers-conversion-from-rtf-word-and-fb2-new-open-source-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-1046889 Michael Harris Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:04:06 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/29/epubgen-offers-conversion-from-rtf-word-and-fb2-new-open-source-tool/#comment-1046889 Calibre currently supports the conversion of more formats -- it's also FOSS. It is a library manager for ebooks that allows you to manage and change ebook meta-data and send books to many popular brands of ereaders. The web site is: http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/wiki and the formats that it will convert to epub include: MOBI, LIT, PRC, EPUB, ODT, FB2, HTML, CBR, CBZ, RTF, TXT, PDF, LRS It also converts to mobi (Kindle compatible) and LRF (Sony compatible). This allows you to get books from many sources and get them to your current devices and eventually your future device (ie, epub in the future). Of course, the big fly in the ointment is DRM. This approach requires a DRM-free source to convert from. One nice feature of Calibre, is that it lets you set meta-information across a bunch of books at once. For example, some of my Baen books weren't showing the author names on my Kindle. I could select a batch from the same author and set the author for all of the books at the same time. Michael Calibre currently supports the conversion of more formats — it’s also FOSS. It is a library manager for ebooks that allows you to manage and change ebook meta-data and send books to many popular brands of ereaders. The web site is:
http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/wiki

and the formats that it will convert to epub include:
MOBI, LIT, PRC, EPUB, ODT, FB2, HTML, CBR, CBZ, RTF, TXT, PDF, LRS

It also converts to mobi (Kindle compatible) and LRF (Sony compatible). This allows you to get books from many sources and get them to your current devices and eventually your future device (ie, epub in the future). Of course, the big fly in the ointment is DRM. This approach requires a DRM-free source to convert from.

One nice feature of Calibre, is that it lets you set meta-information across a bunch of books at once. For example, some of my Baen books weren’t showing the author names on my Kindle. I could select a batch from the same author and set the author for all of the books at the same time.

Michael

]]> By: Marshall T. Vandegrift http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/29/epubgen-offers-conversion-from-rtf-word-and-fb2-new-open-source-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-1046783 Marshall T. Vandegrift Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:20:19 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/29/epubgen-offers-conversion-from-rtf-word-and-fb2-new-open-source-tool/#comment-1046783 @igorsk. Liza Daly of Threepress is apparently the one who created the epub-tools code.google project, and all the Threepress materials use "ePub." In the blog post Mr. Norton calls it EPUBGen, so at least everyone's being consistent :-). The font sub-setting stuff looks quite interesting. @igorsk. Liza Daly of Threepress is apparently the one who created the epub-tools code.google project, and all the Threepress materials use “ePub.” In the blog post Mr. Norton calls it EPUBGen, so at least everyone’s being consistent :-) .

The font sub-setting stuff looks quite interesting.

]]> By: igorsk http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/29/epubgen-offers-conversion-from-rtf-word-and-fb2-new-open-source-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-1046744 igorsk Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:54:08 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/29/epubgen-offers-conversion-from-rtf-word-and-fb2-new-open-source-tool/#comment-1046744 It's got a logo! Interestingly, the capitalization on it does not match the official one. It’s got a logo! Interestingly, the capitalization on it does not match the official one.

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