I can add books and change some of the obvious metadata, but that's about it. I have Calibre on my computer, but I am very much a beginner to using it. Links or specific steps would be very helpful. It would be really helpful if any suggestions don't assume that I know what you are talking about. I would like to fix this if I can to make the books I've purchased more enjoyable to read on my ereaders.īTW, to paraphrase Bones McCoy, "I'm a doctor, not a software engineer!".
I believe the encoding is inherent to the files. I've read them in Calibre (after stripping DRM - for my personal use only! - so that I can actually look at the books in the viewer), in the Sony Reader App, and in Adobe Digital Editions 2.0. However, if I view the books with any viewer on my computer, the encoding is the same. I haven't purchased enough books from other vendors in the last few months to have a large enough sample to say anything about other stores. I know I get this in books from the Sony Reader store and from Kobo Books.
I haven't actually purchased Baen ebooks from any source except the publisher, so there is a slight possibility that the problem is dependent on the store/source and not the epub file as originally published. There are several publishers involved, though (no DRM!) has not so far been one of them, IIRC. Since it happens when the book is downloaded directly, I figure the operating system of my computer is not relevant. It occurs whether the book is downloaded directly to my 950 reader or if I load it to either reader from my computer(s), which are all Mac OS X of several versions from 10.4 to Mountain Lion. Usually it is for a whole chapter, not part, and it can be seen in chapters not consecutive to each other. The problem may be the entire book, but it is usually restricted to a few chapters, with rare occasion where the encoding changes within a chapter. I buy books from several ebook stores and I borrow from the library. See what I mean about it being really hard to read? Translation: " 'Sides, 'tis only for a moon. When a sentence had “’m for " 'm at the beginning of a speech (when the character was slurring his words) it took me a while to figure out how it was supposed to read. In playing around with my browsers and View -> Encoding menus, I have figured out that it has something to do with the Character Encoding within the epub files.Įxample: I’ve is printed instead of I've. In the last year, I've been getting books with odd characters instead of punctuation, which make the books/chapters difficult to read.
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