Various folks (see http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...72#post2675172) including me, desire the feature that one can open a HTML file and click on a link to a local ebook file (e.g. an EPUB file) and have that ebook open properly. Simple, yes? But the HTML browser on the pocketbook 623 doesn't do that, it can't cope.
Neither can the enhanced Links browser (which I downloaded from the Russian forum, no don't ask me to give you the link I can't remember it). Oh, it can find and open the file, but it doesn't understand EPUB and doesn't open the file with an EPUB reader program; it tries to open the file itself and one gets garbage on the screen.
However, I've found a workaround!
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It seems that if one opens the HTML file with fbreader, it DOES understand clicking on a local file AND opening it with the EPUB reader program. It's even clever enough to use whatever program one has set as the default EPUB reader, even when that default isn't fbreader itself.
Yes, it's a trade-off, because fbreader isn't really that great at displaying HTML files (for some reason, it splits them over multiple pages when it doesn't need to), but at least it does treat local links correctly. A compromise could be that you don't set fbreader as the default HTML reader, but use "open with" when you navigate to a HTML file which you know has local links in it that you want to use (such as a HTML catalogue of your books).
I thought some folks would be interested to know about this workaround.
Neither can the enhanced Links browser (which I downloaded from the Russian forum, no don't ask me to give you the link I can't remember it). Oh, it can find and open the file, but it doesn't understand EPUB and doesn't open the file with an EPUB reader program; it tries to open the file itself and one gets garbage on the screen.
However, I've found a workaround!
:idea2:
It seems that if one opens the HTML file with fbreader, it DOES understand clicking on a local file AND opening it with the EPUB reader program. It's even clever enough to use whatever program one has set as the default EPUB reader, even when that default isn't fbreader itself.
Yes, it's a trade-off, because fbreader isn't really that great at displaying HTML files (for some reason, it splits them over multiple pages when it doesn't need to), but at least it does treat local links correctly. A compromise could be that you don't set fbreader as the default HTML reader, but use "open with" when you navigate to a HTML file which you know has local links in it that you want to use (such as a HTML catalogue of your books).
I thought some folks would be interested to know about this workaround.