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mea culpa
Ouch. Just discovered a RetroRead bug that apparently has existed for the longest time which makes you unable to convert a file upon first registering … not a very promising experience. Apologies to those who tried and then gave up.
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The Wylie thing
Comments on ebook world in general … was very interested to read a week ago about the Wylie agency’s plan to publish some of its authors (such as Phillip Roth and John Updike) in ebook format directly (and exclusively) with … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe, Amazon, Bantam Books, Harper Collins, kindle, McCalls', Random House, Select Magazines, Time-Life, Wylie
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Is RetroRead redundant?
Just the other day, I delved a little more deeply into the Internet Archive’s collection of “ebooks” … and discovered they have managed (?) to upload close to one million texts with “google” as the scanner, and have an option … Continue reading
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RetroRead has Facebook page
Well, title says it all, mostly … have hooked up the twitter feed to the fan page as well as RSS of the blitzesblog. So folks can see what’s up at RetroRead while hanging out at FB
And now for some good news
Last weekend wasn’t a total waste, although the problems at Blue Host were somewhat trying … meanwhile, have implemented updates to the way the RetroRead “colophon” elements are injected into the ebook. Previously I was using some assumptions about the … Continue reading
RetroRead down 12 hrs+: Serious problems at hosting provider
Well since about five o’clock Friday (7/17) www.retroread.com has been essentially offline. First the SQL server apparently crashed, then the whole site came down. The front end is hosted by bluehost.com, and apparently they had to completely rebuild the host … Continue reading
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Greetings from Holland
On vacation for these two weeks (back soon) … and apologies, there was apparently an outage for last while. Have been offline, should be good again.
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My Library
… now the “send title” page is fully aware of your delivery preferences, and (assuming you are logged in), adds any titles that you request delivery on to your library (your library used to include only titles you converted yourself).
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enhanced Kindle browser experience
OK, Let’s face it … the Kindle browser is a total dog! But that’s no excuse. The previous Kindle browser pages were tweaks of the regular pages; I’ve now edited them into their own pages and added “paging” to the … Continue reading
Image Editing Enabled
May be some rough edges, but think it’s ready to go. Am re-doing a number of titles and always opting for it when uploading new titles … definitely enhances the reading experience to get rid of the “front matter bloat”. … Continue reading