ebooks

[roly]

(SOLVED)All my ".ebooks" were converted to ".epub" when I installed Mageia1 on my 64bit PC. Does anyone had a similar experience?

What can I do to convert them back? I have searched both epub and ebook on the forums and received no hits.

Of course "Okular" does not read epub and I had not transfered some of the ebook's to my Kobo.

[doktor5000]

Can you please give more informations? Where were those .ebook files located? Can you please give more informations on one such file?
Please do an

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ls -la some_ebook_filename

and

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file some_ebook_filename

in a terminal?
In general the installer doesn't do anything about your personal files, something else must have happened, f.ex. the default file association has changed, but your files haven't, so now they are just opened with another program. What were you using before you installed Mageia to view them on you computer?

Related: there are many free readers for .epub files, as this is an open and really widespread format.
At least fbreader and calibre are packaged for Mageia. Calibre is also suitable for converting ebooks to other formats.
Then there's an online converter: http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-epub
There are even browser plugin for reading .epub files, f.ex. for firefox: http://www.epubread.com/

[roly]

The problem turns out to be a file association problem. The only association is for epubs.

My wife tried to buy me a couple of S.F books for my birthday and they only came as epub's so she contacted the kobo support and the claim my model supports epub, this after their site claims my model only supports ebook's so we will see.

But being a open source advocate since 1996 I would like to see the file association for ebook's added.

I appreciate the efforts of the developers and am looking forward to Mageia2.

Thanks for the reply.
roly

[doktor5000]

I'm confused, so what's the status of your problem currently? Does it persist, is it solved, do you still have any questions ... ?

[roly]

>>I'm confused, so what's the status of your problem currently? Does it persist, is it solved, do you still have any questions ... ?

I am also confused, the status at present is my system only has a file extension for .epub and displays all my .ebooks as .epub.

The support for Kobo has claimed that my unit will work with .epub. I am presently trying to find a epub I am interested in reading and also free because if it does not work I do not want to waste money on it.

I will post a result when I do this.

[djennings]

You can get any number of books in .epub and other formats for free from Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

[laudi]

Where did you get ".ebooks" files from? AFAIK it's no ebook format. Mageia might have helped you more as it should.

Epub is one of the main ebook formats and it's supported by Kobo readers. If you want to buy more ebooks you should inform you about the different ebook formats and drm.

[roly]

Well my Kobo can handle .epub. Brought a couple down from "smashwords" and they worked OK.

To the last poster what was my extension before they all got switched to .epub.

I put a question mark with my solved because I still think there should be the other file extension.

roly

[doktor5000]

Surely the file extensions did not get replaced, only the file association changed. And .ebook is not an registered extension from the default applications in Mageia. Have a look via systemsettings -> File Associations -> search for "ebook" and view all the entrys, pay attention to the right hand-side, where you can a see a field for "Filename patterns", not one which says *.ebook. This instruction only applies for KDE, for GNOME it should be somewhere in gnome-control-center.

You can change the file associations to suit your personal preferences.

[roly]

Well I owe everyone an apology. My only excuse is was a senior moment (70+). ;>}

I think what threw me off was I could read them with Okular on Mandriva and cannot on Mageia.

Waiting with bated breath for Mageia2.

[doktor5000]

I think what threw me off was I could read them with Okular on Mandriva and cannot on Mageia.

No worries, even young people like me have senior moments sometimes

Is it still the case that Okular under Mageia can't read the same files that Okular under Mandriva would show?

[roly]

Yes it still occurs. I saw an update for a epub library for KDE and checked again. But I accidentally downloaded a ".mobi" book and it works in ocular, go figure.

[doktor5000]

Mind to send me such an ebook that cannot be viewed in okular via Mail for testing purposes?
FWIW, all the ebooks i've got are PDF's.