Forest Sangha Publications

[theravada_guy]

Greetings all,

I just now discovered the Forest Sangha portal Web site along with the publications section. Most of the books look like they're only available as "epub" and "mobi" files. What are these? Why aren't they in PDF format, which, I wish they'd work on putting them into.

Thanks.

[daverupa]

Adobe acrobat should open epub files...

[bodom]

Greetings all,

I just now discovered the Forest Sangha portal Web site along with the publications section.

Great website I am on there daily.

Most of the books look like they're only available as "epub" and "mobi" files. What are these? Why aren't they in PDF format, which, I wish they'd work on putting them into.

It is so they can be uploaded to e-readers such as kindle, nook, ipad etc.

[theravada_guy]

Does anyone know where I can download this ePub thing? I looked on Wikipedia, and it said it was a free program. But I when I went to the Web site, I couldn't find where to download it.

[Upasaka]

Does anyone know where I can download this ePub thing? I looked on Wikipedia, and it said it was a free program. But I when I went to the Web site, I couldn't find where to download it.

Does this help?

Adobe DE (Digital Editions) is a Flash based eBook reader for the desktop computer and Sony Reader. Along with reading ePub formatted books, DE can also read PDF files and both of these with or without DRM protection.

Download--- http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/

Adobe has been a great supporter of ePub; in fact they are also a member of the IDPF, helping to develop the book format itself. When they released their Digital Editions, it was the first eBook reader that could read ePub books.

DE is available for both Windows and Mac computers with Linux currently in development and installation is a very simple process. During installation you will be asked to authorise your computer. You do have the option of refusing this, but any DRM encrypted eBooks you buy will not be transferable to any other computers or devices.

The visual look of DE is quite different to most computer software as it has a dark, brushed metal, grey interface. Personally I like the look, especially as it helps to emphasise the white pages, where the actual reading is done.

Adobe are also wanting to expand DE into other markets, with a current localisation that includes three different languages; English, French and German.

[theravada_guy]

Awesome! After some figuring out of the program and how to get the files into the reader, it worked. Thank you, very very much!

[Upasaka]

you are very welcome!

[theravada_guy]

Would anyone know why I get a question mark (?) in some Pali words when I read the ePubs in Adobe Digital Editions? How can I fix this?

Thanks.

[daverupa]

Possibly:

But ADE randomly displays question marks inside words

This is because your original file has soft hyphens. ADE doesn't handle those. So just remove these soft hyphens from your file and the question marks will go away. Look for something like ­ or ‑. Basically anything "strange" that exists between those two characters. But you have to look in the HTML.

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