Re: Re: Would like your feedback on free ePub edition of 'My Antonia'

From: "jon_noring" 
> 
> Jon Noring wrote:
> 
>> ... For Epubreader, be sure to update to the latest version 1.1.1
>> which was released a couple days ago as that fixes some navigation
>> issues. For those new to the Firefox Epubreader add-on, go here:
>>
>>    http://www.epubread.com/
>>
>> It is definitely worth trying -- I find the version for Windows to
>> be an excellent start at an ePub reader that will only get better
>> with time.)
> 
> Since my original post, I discovered that the ePub of "My Antonia"
> does not properly autoload into the Epubreader Firefox add-on when the
> link to that ebook at my web site is actuated. Here's the direct link
> to version 1.0 of "My Antonia" so you can try it out for yourself:
> 
>   http://www.glasspublishing.net/myantonia/myantonia10.epub
> 
> Michael Volz, the developer of Epubreader, is mystified as to why
> autoload is not working for my ePub since it works for other online
> ePub. For example, try this from within Firefox (with the Epubreader
> add-on, version 1.1.1, already installed):
> 
>   http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1661/pg1661.epub
> 
> (Michael believes it may be in the http header sent from my web host.)
> 
> So, in the interim, when you click on the above link to the ePub of
> "My Antonia", download the ePub to your computer. Locate the ePub
> and then open it in Firefox.
> 
> Jon Noring
> 

Jon,

It will not have escaped your notice that I have moaned and groaned over ePub, possibly not on this list ;-).

My unease is heightened by endeavouring to follow though and see how this book looks and reads. IE gives it scant attention, merely assisting a temp download. Opera, after an exited moment, makes me hunt for an inadequately named widget [no ePub in the title and not turned up by search], which then insists that some technical gizmo, I/O, be incorporated in the brwoser. It then sends me to a blog that invites me to get far more technical than I am prepared to.

Firefox I have not yet opened, as it takes time and plays hide, and seek and my available time and sense of adventure have both been exhausted!

It leaves me where I started on this. While in principle it may be very useful and helpful, it is not apparently beyond the geeky stage even now.

Tell me I'm wrong, and can view this without jumping through flaming hoops? ;-)

Joseph


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