
This may be a device discussion, but it could tie in to an issue of varying "features" (if "quality" were too pejorative a term) of epub items in the PG collection. I've on occasion downloaded one or two epub books from PG directly from the web page, using the phone. I then use Astro to move the file around to the appropriate directory, and had success with Aldiko or FBreader seeing the files. That is, seeing the full file info, complete with the author showing up under author list, and having access to all of the tags. {Let me make an aside that this is one of the joys of the electronic age: I was once stuck with my family at a drive-in restaurant, and five minutes after I had the idea, I was reading them Jules Verne off my phone!} Then I got greedy. I downloaded a large handful of epub's on a PC, and moved them over to the appropriate directory. Now for most of them, Neither see the tags, Aldiko only sees the author, and FBreader doesn't even see the title! It's just "pgxxx.epub". Are there "individual design decisions" that influence how much information gets embedded in any particular epub file that gets produced? I think if someone were to want only one ebook, tags don't matter, but if someone is going to have more than five, it is a problem. Granted, one had too many redundant tags, but the title and author should be locatable. Or is it the software's fault? Maybe we need someone to be a curator of some of the best epub books in the collection. -- Greg M. Johnson http://pterandon.blogspot.com

Greg M. Johnson wrote:
Are there "individual design decisions" that influence how much information gets embedded in any particular epub file that gets produced? I think if someone were to want only one ebook, tags don't matter, but if someone is going to have more than five, it is a problem. Granted, one had too many redundant tags, but the title and author should be locatable. Or is it the software's fault?
We embed all information we have at the time of generation. Which epub does not display correctly? -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
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