OOC: Revised /Wrath of Trees/

[sythyry]

Mirrored from Sythyry.

I’ve uploaded improved versions of the e-books of The Wrath of Trees to both Amazon and Smashwords. The new versions have, among other improvements suggested by several of you, a Table of Contents. Amazon’s gadgetry is perplexing me, and I’m not sure that the Kindle will recognize the Table of Contents as the Table of Contents, or format it properly — but at least it’s a list of links at the beginning of the book to all the chapters, including the appendix, which is most of it.

If you’ve bought the book already, I think you can download the newer edition for free.

If not, and if you buy it soon, you’ll get a slightly nicer edition than the first.

• Kindle edition from Amazon
• Paper edition from Amazon
• Many formats of e-book from SmashWords

Comments

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

I just bought my copy.

[goldkin.livejournal.com]

I had a look at the new edition using my Fire. The Table of Contents renders properly in the book, but...

... two caveats.

The first is that it's asking me to purchase the book again, so in lieu of causing further problems, I downloaded the sample.

The second is that the Table of Contents shows as grayed out in the relevant menu selections (Menu > Table of Contents and, on older devices, Menu > Go to... > table of contents), indicating that it's not registered properly. And to preempt the question with an answer: yes, tables of contents should work in samples; the links from them just stub out when they exceed its length.

I assume you're testing this with Amazon's Cloud Reader? If not, it's worth trying to help iron out the kinks.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I was afraid of that. Grr. I followed Amazon's directions carefully, in all the variations I could think of, and this was the best I could do in an evening of work.

[goldkin.livejournal.com]

I empathize, I really do.

My mother also had trouble with this process, though hers was a different sort with digitization; she was trying to get a workbook up with all the right paths for highlighting and text-to-speech. What she ended up with was this blocky mess of image files without good advice on how to fix it. We've since resolved that, at least.

I wish I were less politely ignorant about where the trouble lies. If it doesn't resolve in a few days, I am not above opening the new version with Calibre to figure out exactly what's wrong. Would you mind if I did so?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I would be grateful if you did! I am out of clues.

[goldkin.livejournal.com]

I shall endeavor to do so! Well, provided I survive my cross-country flight to Florida later this evening. Boy, will my wings be tired.

I have access to my machines from anywhere with an Internet connection, so that should affect my abilities not at all. Barring the slight delay, anyway.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Happy travels!

Let's talk more by email -- I'm bard.bloom at gmail.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

I reviewed it! Here. ^_^

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Anytime, hope your books are doing well!