[bksvol-discuss] Re: Converting Html books
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:48:05 -0700
Hi, Mike, when I went to that site, i.e., webscriptions.net, I found no
texts in a plain text format. I found formats I'd never heard of (not
surprising, considering my lack of knowledge) but I found stuff in Rtf or
Html formats that I think my BrailleNOte might be able to manage. When I
proofread a book (my first one) it was in rtf format, but my BrailleNOte
couldn't recognize it until it was changed to a WordPad format. I'm
wondering if the RTF format books at webscriptions.net are different.
Anyhow, I was leery of downloading them. That's the story. Regards, Kim.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:36 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Converting Html books
Kim,
After all that good advice people gave you, I have a simple question. I
thought Baen books are available as txt and rtf as well as html, yes, no?
If so, they may still be a file for each chapter, but putting all in one
file would be at worst a bunch of cut and pastes.
I'll admit I haven't looked at Baen books for a while.
Misha
Kim Friedman wrote:
> Hi, Miss Jackie, well, I'll tell you, the first thing I did was to
> unzip the file, now that's one thing I do know how to do. I guess it's
> knowing what to do after the darned thing is unzipped. These appear to
> be separate files, and what I want to do is somehow inform these
> little beasties "you all belong to this one entity, namely a book.
> When I extracted the zip folder, what I did was to use alt+f to get
> into the file menu and hit A for extract all which was accomplished.
> I'm going back over the message you sent me to see if I can understand
what you told me to do. If not, I'll write back.
> Thanks much for writing. Regards, Kim Friedman.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jackie
> McBride
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 10:36 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Converting Html books
>
> Kim:
>
> Well I guess I'm a nurd lol. Or geek. Or...?
>
> Looks like the book is available in a .zip format. Therefore, extract
> the book to it's own directory by pressing applications key or shift
> f10 on the .zip file & choosing extract all, choose/create a
> directory, then open each file in internet explorer, press alt f, then
> a for save as, press alt t for files of type, type t to choose text,
> shift tab to the filename, make sure the extension is .txt, & that an
appropriate filename has been filled in.
> Sounds a whole lot more complex than it is.
>
> On 10/30/09, Kim Friedman <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have a question and I'm thinking you computer nerds might be
>> able to help me. Here's the story: I downloaded a collection of
>> stories by Mercedes Lackey called Fiddler Fair from webscriptions.net
>> which is affiliated with Baen books. When I downloaded the book, I
>> chose to do it in HTML format because I think my BrailleNote mPower
>> can deal with stuff in that format or at least I think it can. The
>> problem is that when I enter the book, there are a lot of files, each
>> story being in its own file and there's a connection to Internet
>> Explorer in order for me to read them. What I'm wondering is if
>> there's a way to convert the book to plain text so I can select those
>> parts the BrailleNote will recognize, and do either a copy-and-paste
>> or a cut-and-paste job on it. I have a friend who tells me not to
>> bother, but just read the thing on the computer. Any advice? Keep in
>> mind that I know nothing about converting texts into various formats,
>> so I don't know how to go about it. Also, is there some computer
>> program I need to get that will allow me to convert files and I hope
>> this
>>
> program will be easy to use and very accessible. Perplexed, Kim Friedman.
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