Thanks, Mark. I'm going to try this. I'll post my results on this thread. Really appreciate your time with this. I'm very curious to know if I can replace my legacy notetaker with these methonds, to be honest.
Take care, Teresa "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham On Apr 16, 2012, at 9:01 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > Hello Theresa, > > If you purchase the latest version of Pages from the Mac App Store for > approximately $10, you can save your work as either a PDF or an eBook. > > When saving, select EPUB and the help tag will say that the file will be > readable in iBooks. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Teresa Cochran > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 11:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Don't Seem To Be Having Much Luck Reading brf-to-Epub in > IBooks; Anyone else? > > Hi, Mark, > It's a Mac Mini running Lion. > > Teresa > "We are made of star-stuff"--Carl Sagan, Cosmos > > On Apr 16, 2012, at 11:07 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > >> Theresa, >> >> Is your computer a Mac or a Windows PC? >> >> Mark >> On Apr 16, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> >>> Hi, Mark and all, >>> >>> Yes, and it doesn't work either. Interesting. So it's probably not the > brf format that's causing the trouble. >>> >>> Have you tried any other converters? I can't seem to get the hang of > Calibre in command-line. I think I'll try one of the online conversion tools > and see how that goes. >>> >>> Teresa >>> >>> "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. > Feynman >>> >>> On Apr 15, 2012, at 3:59 PM, M. Taylor wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Theresa, >>>> >>>> I do not use Stanza. >>>> >>>> However, have you tried saving a plain text file with a few sentences as > an eBook and test it in iBooks? >>>> >>>> Mark >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Apr 15, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, all, >>>>> >>>>> IBooks doesn't like the epub files that I produce, for some reason. > Here's what I do. >>>>> >>>>> I open a brf file in TextEdit, copy all the text, open Stanza, choose > "new from clipboard" from the file menu, and save it as an Epub document in > my ITunes Books folder. I then sync it to my IPod. It says "unknown". I > experimented with changing the info tags so that they show the title and > author once I enter them in manually. >>>>> >>>>> When I open IBooks, it hangs and is unresponsive. the Braille does not > display at all, and I get a few stuttered words when I turn on speech just > to experiment. (I'm aware speech can't read the books.) >>>>> >>>>> So I'm wondering if I'm missing any steps somewhere. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Teresa >>>>> >>>>> "Nobody ever tells me anything!"--James Forsyte, quoted in the Forsyte > Saga >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
