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@Norm Bird,
Long tap on any book on shelves…
I am wondering how I can delete books from the library after I have read them. Love the program.
Hi. Is there any chance on getting .lit support for the playbook? I ack that it is no longer being supported by Microsoft, but for those of us with legacy libraries of publications in this format it would be extremely useful. There are no readers currently on the playbook which provide this support.
@Peter,
No, there is not. I forgot that idea long time ago, there is not enough people with this need.
You should try to convert those files to something like epub, calibre would probably do this.
Hello again,
I have a couple of suggestions:
1) In the Playepub app, show the last line of the previous section of the page at the top of screen in the next section of the page, so that when the reader scrolls down they more easily know that what they are reading is a continuation of the last section. It would make for a smother transition and for better tracking when reading.
2) On this support page of this website, show the most recent posts at the top. Go from newer to older rather than order to newer.
Thanks,
Sam
@Sam Miller,
I think I don’t understand what you mean on 1). Could you please add more details?
2) comments are already shown latest first! First page are the most recent ones.
Hello,
How do I read a book in Playepub with left aligned text. The app, by default justifies the text, yet I want the text left aligned, the way it is in the original epub file.
Thanks, Sam
@Sam Miller,
Sorry but you can’t. Playepub forces justify by default and can’t be changed.
I have the app on my BlackBerry PlayBook. Lately it has been shutting down spontaneously.
@Deborah,
You should reinstall it, it sound as some kind of degradation with the app.
Do you have hundreds of opened books?
I just download app onto my blackberry q10, but when I attempt to open the following file, I just see a white screen.
[file]http://playepub.com/files/2013/08/Meteoricshipyards-Lunas-Hubby.mobi[/file]
@smj,
Let me do some tests, I tell you something asap.
Purchased app from BlackBerry World for my Q10. No menu is visible. Unable to change font, brightness, or appearance. Are there keyboard shortcuts?
@Liz Nelson,
Please, read help here on website, everything is there.
When reading, swipe down to show settings.
I am having an issue with my reader in that it will not transfer from the paragraph to the link. I am trying to read the September 2013 issue of the Awake magazine from the website at http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/. It had been working in earlier editions with the earlier versions of playepub. Thanks.
@Kim B Frank,
You are right. jw.rog changed their book format last weeks and it is having problemas with links.
I’m working on it, hope to have it fixed soon.
Hi! I love your app. I have it on both my PB and my Z. Is it possible to show the page number in books? I use this a lot for studying and sometimes, the instructor will make reference to a page number in the book, but I don’t have it. Thank you.
@Shaleen,
Even though it could be done it will be useless for you, page numbers depend on font size, margins, line separation, font… each page will have a different page number just changing any of those params.
I have logged into bb world to try and download on my playbook to find my only option is to purchase again. Has the app profile changed? Do i contact blackberry about this?
Thanks.
@Jay,
From “My World” tap on “update” button both on installed and available apps. Check again Playepub download view.
Can it be possible to implement opds support? Present way of accessing libraries is ok for a tablet but is extremely uncomfortable for a phone.
@Artem,
I’ll take it a look for the next months!
@Jay,
You don’t have to, just download from BB World.
I have purchased Playepub for my Z10, do i need to purchase a second copy to use it on my PlayBook?
Re: Editor Says on #22069:
The ‘ref notes’ are the only need I have for my epub files, I use table of contents to get where I’m going otherwise. I tried newer files from the same source and the ‘ref notes’ don’t work in them either. I hope you can fix this problem, or you app won’t serve my needs.
How can I stop receiving subscription from the comments that is not mine,
Thanks
@Don,
You can’t, subscription works for all support comments. You can remove from receiving all updates, but not the others ones!
@J morgan,
Yes and know.
Most links on your book work fine, but some of then, mainly “ref notes”, use new epub3 format and it’s having problems.
I’m working on it!
Regarding #21108: any progress?
I really like the Playepub app. However there is one issue that is frustrating. When reading a book for instance, I find word I don’t understand and by enabling dictionary to pop in, I find definition. I would like to save this definition as note in add note option. How do you recall this note you saved, latter on?
Thanks
@Daniel,
Well, I won’t call it “issue” but I will call it “new feature”, and I like it!
I add it to my TODO!
@Daniel,
Are you using Playbook or BB10 version?
just figured out the bizarre method for turning a page, but now how do I turn to the previous page?
@scott,
Why do you thing it is bizarre?
Tap right to go next, tap left to go previuos, that’s all.
just bought playepub for my playbook, and loaded the new york times via calibre. The app does not turn pages. it only scrolls through the pages vertically. The same file opened in book reader works perfectly. I think it is basic that an epub reader turn pages.
what a waste of a dollar!
How do I delete a book from my library when I am finished reading it?
@Kelly aitken,
Long tap on any book on shelves.
Since Blackberry wouldnt do anything how about sideloading the file?
Thank you very much I deleted it and reinstalled it and now it is working.
Please unsubscribe me. I no longer own any blackberry products
Hello. I purchased the playepub but I dont know how to set my email. What should I put in POP3 HOST?
What abot the port?
🙁
Thks!
Juliana
@juliana,
You have to check that with your provider.
If it’s gmail just Google for “gmail pop3 cpnfig” or something like that.
I recently updated my playepub and now it will not open at all I keep getting an error msg. It says unable to start Playepub book reader due to error 22
@Trudy,
I don’t know what error 22 is and haven’t found any useful info, but I would try uninstalling the app and installing again. Probably someting went wrong during the update and broke your installation.
Please, let me know if this fixes the issue.
@Shiv,
Bad news. It seems we can’t do anything…
Please, read this thread… this is the truth 🙁
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-World-Development/There-is-no-quot-Purchase-quot-button-on-BB-World-for-Playbook/td-p/2360169
Message on download that book may be DRM protected. Downloading study Watchtowers from JW.Org website. Has suddenly started to happen from July issue onwards. Can you help please
Many thanks
Bob
@Bob Alexander,
Please, attach that book and let me test.
Might it be that it hasn’t been fully downloaded? Just an idea.
@Shiv,
Let me try to find some help.
Tell you something asap.
@Ladislo, @Peter,
I’ll take a look into it. Let’s see if there is something I can do…
It seems to have to do with the book. When I reloaded it, the margins were fine and resoonded to the slide. Although an other one still gives problems (but also test in blue and underlined…
I will convert with Calibre and see how that works.
keep up the good work!
I’ve had the same problem as Ladislo for quite a while with background going white for a second while in sepia. This happen when I go back a page and then forward again (rarely happens if I just keep going forward) on all books (sepia, double column, no page animation). No big deal but agree it’s a bit annoying, especially since the problem didn’t exist before and started to appear after an upgrade quite a while back (end of last year I think, when one upgrade accelerated page turning?)
Great app as always and thanks for the regular updates.
I have followed the email link and email bb support about not being able to download this app on my playbook but so far I have no heard back a response. Is there any other way I can get this app to download other than app world on my playbook? Scan a qr code or something?? Anything??
Hi,
It’s just to confirm that links inside .fb2 file are working with the latest update. Thank you for a support.
The new question that I do have is: when I’m using sepia theme for a background there is a little bug IMHO. When touch right corner to go to the next page, it seems that the next page background firstly is “white” and then re-rendered as “sepia”. There is just an annoying color blinking.
Is there a way to fix this?
Thank you.
New update just approved for BB10 and Playbook:
-Fixed issue with cover on FB2
-Fixed issue with links on FB2
-Added coverpage on FB2 books
And for BB10 also:
-Fixed background on books shelves when on List mode.
@Dave,
There is no phone restart needed. Your phone might have had something wrong. This is the first case I know with this issue, so, don’t worry, shouldn’t happen often.
Some nice features like annotations.
However when reading, the margins show very small or not existing on my playbook, switching pages results only in selecting text and frustrations as the page will not turn!
Beside that the bookshelf is too small for my eyes, I can not read the text on the cover of the collections.
any tips how to handle these? Or do I have to go back to my BookReader?
@pieter,
Thanks for your feedback.
You can change margins from main format menu, swiping down.
I don’t understand your issue about changing pages and text selection, what does exactly happen when you tap to change page?
Regarding covers, you can try list view instead of bookshelves, it will be easier for you to read.
RE my earlier problem with focus and lack of screen response – I did a backup using BB link, re-started the phone – and that issue seems to be resolved. Could be the forced re-start ‘made it all better’. I even got the bookmarks to work – cool feature, that, especially with voice noting. That, with ability to annotate ‘normal’ PDFs would make this reader a killer app for the BB business crowd – circulate documents, collect annotations, comments on the go.
If a phone re-start is required to have the install work fully, it would help to make that point clear.
@Ladislo,
I have just uploaded a new release, hope it is approved in 2 or 3 days, both on BB10 and Playbook.
-Fixed issue with cover on FB2
-Fixed issue with links on FB2
-Added coverpage on FB2 books
And for BB10 also:
-Fixed background on books shelves when on List mode.
@Ladislo,
Links on epub work fine, this was a bug only on FB2.
By the way I’ve solved another bug with cover images not loading 🙂
Hi,
thank you for an info about this issue with references inside fb2.
I will be waiting for a new release.
I have to say that it seems that this issue also exists for epub books. I am not sure for 100%, but I tried the same book converted from fb2->epub and it was the same bug.
thanks for the reply (below): next question is can I get the ebooks I borrow from the local library on my q10?
Editor Says on #21485:
July 13th, 2013 at 18:45
@william perego,
You’ve to know that kindle books are property of amazon and you are not supposed to read them on other devices.
There is no easy process to get the books, and most of them are drm protected. You’ll have to do this two things, getting files and removing drm.
You can start here
http://epubee.com/kindle-drm-removal.html
Hope this helps you
@william perego,
Well, yes and no 😛
You will have the same problem with DRM, borrowed books usually are drm protected. You have to remove DRM before opening them. The process is similar to that on kindle books.
@Ladislo,
I’m looking at your issue with links.
It seems like a bug with links on fb2 files.
I’ll try to fix and update ASAP.
Just downloaded reader on my BB Z10 on 7/12/13, OS version 10.1.2006. I’m having an issue – and am unsure of its true nature. When I’m reading after first launching the app, I can navigate page-to-page, chapter-to-chapter, etc. However, when I change focus (e.g. to answer a call, or view an e-mail), the reader loses page navigation, i.e. the left tap/right tap does nothing, and swipes give a quick working swirly, but don’t go page to page. Only work-around is to shut down and re-start the app. In doing so, the app doesn’t ‘remember’ the place in the book – I need to navigate via chapter/paging, which is a PIA. Also, I haven’t figured out how to set bookmarks – the option doesn’t seem to be there. I turned off the BB messenger permissions, as I won’t be sharing that sort of info. The e-book I’m reading is one downloaded from my local library, which doesn’t use DRM beyond ‘expiration’ of the book, AFAIK.
Otherwise, this is an excellent e-reader with the options for fonts and spacing being particularly appreciated.
@dave,
Very strange your issue, I can only think on some kind of degradation. Try uninstalling the app and installing again.
Does this happen with any book?
For bookmarking, long tap on text, select the text and on displayed menu choose the option.
How do I get my kindle books on to the blackberry? (Q10)
@william perego,
You’ve to know that kindle books are property of amazon and you are not supposed to read them on other devices.
There is no easy process to get the books, and most of them are drm protected. You’ll have to do this two things, getting files and removing drm.
You can start here
http://epubee.com/kindle-drm-removal.html
Hope this helps you
Hi,
Recently I asked you about an issue with references inside .fb2 file (#21115).
It seems that this does not work – I can not tap on reference and go to the end of book to read it and the go back.
Could you, please, confirm if you checked this?
Thank you.
@Ladislo,
I’m not At the office this week, you’ll have to wait until next one.
Here is the link from the latest notice http://playepub.com/support/comment-page-59/#comment-21236
I found that it takes you to post 12582. One needs to select “Newer” about 5 tomes to get to the latest posts.
@mobireader,
Please, copy one of those links and let me test.