[NTLK] [Q] Ebook reader probs

From: DJ Vollkasko (DJ_Vollkasko_at_gmx.net)
Date: Sat Feb 19 2005 - 05:57:20 PST


Cheers all,

I have two problems with ebooks:

(1) I have one Newton Press-homemade ebook that clocks in at about 1,3=20=

MB on the Newton. Transfers nicely via BT, allows nicely to be put=20
away, but doesn't open. Tapping the icon gives me this error message:

"(i) Newton
Sorry, a problem has occurred.
(Could not display text. A length in the read-only styles slot is too=20
short.)
                                                                [x]"

Closing the error-splashwindow, a second one pops up:

"(i) Newton
Could not display text. A length in the read-only styles slot is too=20
short.
                                                                [x] "

(As if the first window hadn't already advised us of this interesting=20
fact...)

-- What's happening here? How can I get the book to behave and display?

(2) With some recently Press-made books I have found that the book=20
reader (or maybe Newton Press when I created the book) sometimes=20
doesn't seem to properly wrap lines within a paragraph. The line=20
starts, then at the right end of the line the text breaks off and all=20
the book reader displays is "..." (withouth the ", of course). The next=20=

line starts again properly, but obviously something like half a=20
sentence is missing.

I'd love this not to have happen in my books. I hate this. Why does it=20=

happen? How can it be avoided?

Any helpful suggestions appreciated.

DJV.
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Adorno, Theodor W. - On Popular Music (1941)

New! Balzac, Honor=E9 de, and Amphiteatrof, Alexander - Folk-Tales of=20
Napoleon (1902)

New! Blackbird, Andrew J - History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians=20
of Michigan (1887)

Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875-1950)
        John Carter on Mars-Series
NEW! 7 - A fighting Man of Mars (1930)
NEW! 8 - Swords of Mars (1934).zip

NEW! Carlsson, Chris -- After The Deluge (2004)

NEW! Cohen , R. - Knights of Malta 1523-1798

New! Cooper, Michael D. - Starman 2 - The Runaway Asteroid (2004)

NEW! Currey, E. Hamilton - Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean

New! Darrow, Clarence - Crime, Its Cause and Treatment (1922)

Debord, Guy - Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography (1955),=20
English/German (Situationiste International)

NEW! Doctorow, Cory -- 4 Short Stories 2002-04

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
                  Adventures of Etienne (1903) (Napoleonic Tales of =
Etienne Gerard)
                Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (...more Napoleonic Tales =
of Etienne=20
Gerard)
New! The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales
                  The Final Problem (S. Holmes feat. Moriarty)
                  The Valley of Fear (S. Holmes, Moriarty mentioned)
                When the World Screamed (1929) (feat. Prof.Challenger)

Dunsany, Lord
          51 Tales (1915)
          Book of Wonders
        The Emperor's Crystal

New! Gratacap, L.P. - The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars (1903)

NEW! Grisewood, R. Norman -- Zarlah the Martian (1909)

Haggard, Henry Rider (1856-1925)
        Allen Quatermain-Stories
                Zulu-Trilogy
NEW! 1. Marie
NEW! 2. Child of Storm
NEW! 3. Finished
                A Tale of Three Lions
NEW! The Brethren

Howard, Robert E. (1906-1936)
        Rogues in the House (Conan the Cimmerian goes Newton!)
        Shadows in Zamboula (1935, Conan again)
        The Devil in Iron (1934, Conan yet again)
        The Tower of Elephant (...and still more Conan!)

NEW! Howell, Greg -- The Human Memoirs (1996)

Knigge, Adolph Freiherr von - =DCber den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)

Lovecraft, Howard Phillips (1889-1937)
                Herbert West, Reanimator (1921-1922)
                Pickman's Model (1926)
                The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
                The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
NEW! The Temple (1920)
                The Picture in the House (1919)

New! Mackey, Albert G. - The Principles of Masonic Law (1856)

NEW! Morris, William - Sigurd the Volsung

NEW! Munro, John -- A Trip to Venus (1897)

Rockwood, Roy
        Great Marvel Series
NEW! 4 - THROUGH SPACE TO MARS, Or the Longest Journey on Record
NEW! 5 - Lost on the Moon

NEW! Rosenbaum, Benjamin - Embracing-the-New (2004)

NEW! Serviss, Garrett P. - A Columbus of Space

New! Tietjens, Eunice - Profiles from China (1917)

NEW! Urides, Eros -- Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic=20
revelation

Vague, Tom - Boy Scout's Guide to the Situationist International: The=20
Effect The S.I. Had On Paris '68 And All That, Through The Angry=20
Brigade And King Mob To The Sex Pistols

New! Wallace, Alfred Russel - Is Mars habitable? (1907)

Whibley, Charles - A Book of Scoundrels (Highway men and other=20
criminals of classic Britain)

Whistler, Charles
NEW! 1_Havelok the Dane (1899) - A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln
NEW! 2_A Prince of Cornwall (1904) - A Story of Glastonbury and the=20
West in the Days of Ina of Wessex
NEW! 3_A King's Comrade (1904) - A Story of Old Hereford
NEW! 4_Wulfric the Weapon Thane - A Story of the Danish Conquest of=20
East Anglia
NEW! 5_A Thane of Wessex - Being a Story of the Great Viking Raids into=20=

Somerset
NEW! 6_King Alfred's Viking - A Story of the First English Fleet

Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray

New! Yarrow, H.C. - Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians

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