EPUB files crash my e-book reader

EPUB files crash my e-book reader

[Gilles]

Hello,

I used the following commands to turn a couple of web pages into EPUB to 
read on my no-name reader:

wget -O mypage.html http://www.acme.com/somepage.html
pandoc.2.9.2.1.exe -o mypage.epub mypage.html

(Until I gather the courage of installing a new, 64-bit computer and 
re-installing all my stuff, that is the most recent release of Pando I 
can use because I'm still running 32-bit Windows7.)

For some reason, those two URLs freeze my reader after turning them into 
EPUB files, although they open fin in Windows using SumatraPDF :

https://www.vox.com/22346085/covid-19-vietnam-response-travel-restrictions
https://www.vox.com/22380161/south-korea-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-contact-tracing-testing

I haven't experienced that with other files, be they EPUB or PDF.

Any idea what I could try in the meantime ?

Thank you.

Re: EPUB files crash my e-book reader

[Albert Krewinkel]

The only thing I can think of is to try and use EPUB2 instead of EPUB3.
Maybe the reader doesn't like some EPUB3 feature that's triggered by
these websites? Try this:

    pandoc -o mypage.epub -t epub2 mypage.html

HTH,
Albert

Gilles <codecomplete-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I used the following commands to turn a couple of web pages into EPUB to read on
> my no-name reader:
>
> wget -O mypage.html http://www.acme.com/somepage.html
> pandoc.2.9.2.1.exe -o mypage.epub mypage.html
>
> (Until I gather the courage of installing a new, 64-bit computer and
> re-installing all my stuff, that is the most recent release of Pando I can use
> because I'm still running 32-bit Windows7.)
>
> For some reason, those two URLs freeze my reader after turning them into EPUB
> files, although they open fin in Windows using SumatraPDF :
>
> https://www.vox.com/22346085/covid-19-vietnam-response-travel-restrictions
> https://www.vox.com/22380161/south-korea-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-contact-tracing-testing
>
> I haven't experienced that with other files, be they EPUB or PDF.
>
> Any idea what I could try in the meantime ?
>
> Thank you.


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Albert Krewinkel
GPG: 8eed e3e2 e8c5 6f18 81fe  e836 388d c0b2 1f63 1124

Re: EPUB files crash my e-book reader

[Gilles]

Thanks but… same issue.

There's something in those HTML pages: I haven't had the problem after 
converting other web pages into EPUB with Pandoc, and reading them on my 
reader.

On 29/04/2021 14:07, Albert Krewinkel wrote:
> The only thing I can think of is to try and use EPUB2 instead of EPUB3.
> Maybe the reader doesn't like some EPUB3 feature that's triggered by
> these websites? Try this:
>
>      pandoc -o mypage.epub -t epub2 mypage.html
>
> HTH,
> Albert
>
> Gilles <codecomplete-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I used the following commands to turn a couple of web pages into EPUB to read on
>> my no-name reader:
>>
>> wget -O mypage.html http://www.acme.com/somepage.html
>> pandoc.2.9.2.1.exe -o mypage.epub mypage.html
>>
>> (Until I gather the courage of installing a new, 64-bit computer and
>> re-installing all my stuff, that is the most recent release of Pando I can use
>> because I'm still running 32-bit Windows7.)
>>
>> For some reason, those two URLs freeze my reader after turning them into EPUB
>> files, although they open fin in Windows using SumatraPDF :
>>
>> https://www.vox.com/22346085/covid-19-vietnam-response-travel-restrictions
>> https://www.vox.com/22380161/south-korea-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-contact-tracing-testing
>>
>> I haven't experienced that with other files, be they EPUB or PDF.
>>
>> Any idea what I could try in the meantime ?
>>
>> Thank you.
>
> --
> Albert Krewinkel
> GPG: 8eed e3e2 e8c5 6f18 81fe  e836 388d c0b2 1f63 1124
>

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Re: EPUB files crash my e-book reader

[dmccunney]

<privately>

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 5:17 AM Gilles <codecomplete-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I used the following commands to turn a couple of web pages into EPUB to
> read on my no-name reader:

Just what no-name reader is it?  The problem sounds like the ePub
reader is embedded in the reader firmware, and leaves something to be
desired in the case of standards compliance.  If that's the case, this
is not a problem that can be solved on Pandoc's side. The reader
itself needs an update.

Can you provide a pointer to where you got it? One option, if the
reader has the option to side load external software is to loas a
different view that will override the default.
______
Dennis