Oct
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2014
If you download any of my fics... · 2:59pm Oct 20th, 2014
...please don't use the EPUB option. It's currently broken, in that italics (and other styles, but italics most crucially) are stripped out. That makes parts of some of my stories quite hard to follow, and occasionally outright changes the meaning. HTML downloads do preserve italics, so use that option instead. (You can convert HTML to EPUB in Calibre if you have that.) Hopefully this site will fix its broken EPUB service soon, but as of now I don't recommend using it.
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This is why I release PDFs.
2545528 Which is very nice, but I do most of my reading on a Nook Simple Touch e-reader (which has horrible PDF support) and Moon+ Reader on my phone (which has no PDF support at all) so it's not terribly useful to me -- whereas the old, non-broken EPUB was very useful!
(Plus, because of my bad eyesight, it's vital for me to be able to change fonts to what I want, not what the author wanted. :P)
Thanks for that warning. I didn't realise that had happened, presumabely only very recently. I've got Calibre installed, so I'll make sure to use that to do the converting.
2547133 Excellent!
If you want to check whether it's worked, my story By the Seashore has the first line “For Pete’s sake, Fluttershy, do we really have to go see Harry again?” -- "have" and "again" should be italicised.
(It's a shame that the Nook Simple Touch can't read HTML files, otherwise this wouldn't be so much of a problem. :P )
2548090 Okay, I've just tried that one through Calibre, and it worked perfectly. It managed to convert the italics in that first paragraph with no problems, and I noticed there was another line with italics not too far below, which had also worked okay. So it looks like that's going to have to be the solution, unless they can fix the ePub problem.