LAST EDITED ON Jan-09-12 AT 02:01 PM (EST)
 
>Every so often there's talk about converting the various EPU works for
>eBook formats.
>
>My fiancée got a Kindle for Christmas, and is interested in re-reading
>and catching up on UF works (she read a bunch of them a number of
>years ago).
>
>The Kindle is terrible at displaying 80-column ASCII text, though, and
>the various automated conversion tools mangle the text to a greater or
>lesser extent (particularly song lyrics and credits).
>
>So has anyone made any progress in converting the stories
>(particularly Symphony of the Sword and related works)?

AFAIK, there's a rule about formats, namely "They don't give a crap about keepng up with the newest ereader format, and 80 column text is good enough"

Lemme see what I can BASH (well, python, really) together.

ETA: Alright, so it looks like the big hurdle is going to be actually formatting the files into html formatting, which I don't see an easy way to automate (well, I could script it fairly easily, but then I'd have to go and clean up everywhere that it didn't match up perfectly).

Then again, I've got a bunch of free time, and wanted a ruby learning project, so...

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-Pasha
What was that feeling again?
Oh yes.
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