Do you have an ereader?

[ny biker]

I was able to read several chapters of one of the free epub books yesterday using Moon+. Then I created a Dropbox account, installed the app on my tablet and pc, uploaded some photos from the pc and viewed them on the tablet. (I had taken a bazillion photos of the Chesapeake Bay last month hoping one would be good enough to print in large size and frame to hang on the wall. I figured the super duper screen on the tablet made it the perfect way to view the photos. Unfortunately the sky looked pretty bitmappy in most of them, I guess because I was using the zoom lens on my camera. So they're nice on an 8 inch screen but not so much for 11x17 or so. Oh well.)

Later last night I had problems waking up the tablet when I wanted to use it again. I force-stopped both the Dropbox and Moon+ apps and restarted the tablet, and since then it's okay. Now I will have to try using the apps one at a time to see if either one was causing the problem or if something else was going wonky.

While I was using the tablet for reading I was keeping an eye on the battery. I want to be able to read with it during a trip later this month, so I'm hoping the battery won't die on me mid-flight. Now I'm wondering if I should look into one of those portable charging things that I've seen in stores but not paid any attention to because my phone battery still kicks a$$ even though it's several years old.

That's another thing about technology -- you think you've got everything you need, then you realize there's one more accessory. Kind of like cycling, I guess.

[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.