Do you have an ereader?

[emily_in_nc]

Have any of you who use e-reader software ever had a problem with a book coming through mostly blank? I use my little hybrid laptop/tablet to read books (Win 8.1, ASUS T100 Transformerbook).

The library I check out e-books from used to use Blio and has recently changed to "Axis360 ebook" format, whatever that is. They made us change from using the Blio reader to Axis360, which is pretty much identical to Blio once you get past the login screen. I have had problems with books 2 and 3 in the Hunger Games trilogy using this software (don't know about the first book as I had an actual hardcopy of that one). Both books came through with only the title page, TOC, and section headers. All the text pages were blank.

I was hoping when the library changed to Axis360 the problem would be resolved, but nope, I checked them out and they are exactly the same.

I managed to read book #2 (Catching Fire) using Calibre and downloading a copy in ePub format through iBookPile (which I finally found online). Book #3, though (Mockingjay) is formatted oddly, with line breaks in the middle of lines, so it's difficult to read. It also has many instances of the letter "L" missing in words too! Not sure what is wrong with it, or if I am doing something wrong. I am new to Calibre so am not 100% sure what I am doing.

Here's the link to the books: http://www.ibookpile.com/2014/10/hun...e-collins.html

[Irulan]

If you have calibre, you should be able to fix the formatting.

Go to preferences> conversion > common options > heuristic processing. I've used this to fix a number of books with funky formatting.

[emily_in_nc]

If you have calibre, you should be able to fix the formatting.

Go to preferences> conversion > common options > heuristic processing. I've used this to fix a number of books with funky formatting.

Thanks Irulan!

I did find Heuristic Processing and checked it, but wasn't quite sure where to go from there. I played around a bit with line wrapping, (unchecked "unwrap lines" plus checked it and changed the line unwrap factor a couple of times, because that seems to be the main problem with the formatting. But that didn't seem to make any difference when I viewed the book again. Do I have to do anything else to get changes to "take"?

I'm limping through it because I am determined to read the book, but it's not ideal.

[Irulan]

I totally get your "uhhhhh now what" feeling. I don't remember exactly what I did but it worked on the file I was dealing with. Cablibre seems to have a lot of on line help articles.