Anyway, your problem might be that you’re trying to put .rb files on the eBookwise, which reads .imp files (Half-VGA IMP, if you’re looking at Fictionwise). The .rb format is for earlier incarnations of the ETI-2 (Gemstar, Rocketbook).

Can you redownload the books in the .imp format, or are they all you have? I believe there’s a converter available, but I’d have to go look. (I think it’s available on ETI’s website, actually, but again, since I don’t have the earlier versions of the eBookwise, I’ve not looked into it in any detail).

Just click “About” on the right hand side of the Librarian interface, and the dialog box that appears will display your IP address at the bottom.

It’s also a bit of a pain about the IP address. The eBookwise doesn’t automatically pick up your IP address and since I’m using wireless at home, sometimes the IP changes if DH gets online before me. So I always have to do an IP config to find my IP address and change the proxy settings every time I want to use Librarian.

I don’t know if everyone has that problem, but I thought I’d mention it here just in case. Maybe there is an easier way, but the answer that tech help gave me didn’t have anything to do with my problem, so I don’t know.

Thanks, MB (Leah)! I’m able to convert and upload now, no problems.

(I also turned off the proxy settings in the reader, too.)

To Marifor- you need a translator program to transfer those types of files to your eBookwise. Like Librarian. Otherwise the only books you can put on it are those bought from eBookwise or Fictionwise.

To the Vista users: I’m running Vista sp1 with dual core and I know I remember having an error problem as well even after doing the instructions posted for Vista, although I don’t remember the error type.

Support sent me this, which I think helped with my problem and maybe it could help you.

Are you using Windows Vista? If so, you might have to uninstall and
then reinstall the eBookwise Librarian using the “Run as
Administrator” option. Instead of double-clicking on the installer,
right-click and choose “Run as Administrator”. Here’s a link to the
installer if you need to redownload it (after uninstalling):
http://www.fictionwise.com/software/EBWLibrarianSetup_65a.exe

Other stuff: for non-DRM PDF files, you can also just “save as” and then choose “TXT” and then you can download to your ebookwise as well. You get question marks in place of quote marks, but it’s not that bad.

Error opening/creating HOSTS file error=5

I, too, have Vista SP1. And I followed eBookwise’s recommendations when installing on Vista.

When I open the Librarian, it says:
Error Opening/Creating HOSTS fuke error=

I can’t find anything about that on the net. I’ve tried running the program in XP mode, and I’ve followed the instructions on the ebookwise site about using the Librarian in Vista. Nada, nothing. I’ve uninstalled, cleaned all the references out of the registry and reinstalled it. Nothing.

And what makes it stranger is that it worked fine on the machine I’m selling, also with Vista SP1 installed, with the same configuration, but different core. The old machine has AMD dual core, the new one has Intel dual-core.

If anybody knows what to do, I’d be really grateful. I love my ebookwise and I’ve spent a day on this problem already, with no result.
What puzzles

marifor

If the books are not encrypted, they can be read in the plain-vanilla viewer that comes with the free ETI eBook Publisher program. You can download the Publisher program at:
http://www.ebooktechnologies.com/support_publisher_download.htm

I don’t know of any way to get the viewer separately, but you could try Googling it and see what you find.

Also, I’ve seen instructions – again, I believe it only works for certain unencrypted books – that suggest you can open the IMP files in Word or Wordpad, delete the header and footer text, and the plain-text book would remain.

FWIW

Nicole – yes, we should get together. Maybe we should have a midwest reader’s blog party.

Kim – I agree that you need to be a little tech savvy. I think the Sony Reader hopes to overcome that problem.

Helen – It depends. If you don’t need a booklight and are a bit tech savvy, I would say the Sony Reader has the very best screen resolution out there. If you read in low light situations, I would probably go for an Ebookwise Reader or a Pocket PC. If you go with the Ebookwise now, it’s only $100 and you could then buy an eink device or something better when the kinks are worked out of the e ink devices.

Robin – ubook lite for you. The Smartphone that gowerpoint refers to, I think, is the Symbian OS for phones not running palm or windows mobile.

Miki – I’ve seen that and had problems with it, but you are right, it is a free alternative. Thanks for bringing it up.

It can be found at:
http://www.ebooktechnologies.com/support_publisher_download.htm

It’s not quite as user friendly as the Ebook Librarian (EL), but I find it doesn’t balk at certain situations the way EL does. For example, if you don’t want “justfied text” and you want to have page breaks at every chapter, you just format the RTF file that way and it works. If I remember correctly, the only way to turn off full justification in EL is to tweak the registry. Eek! And it won’t acknowledge page or section breaks.

It also seems to refuse to convert books with certain special characters in them. I had a book that had line feed characters in it, and it stopped converting at the first one it came to. Same with bullet points.

I even had one book I converted using EL that completely crashed my reader! That gave me scare, believe me. Turns out, it didn’t like the pictures included (which the eBook Publisher would have converted to a more usable version or possibly ignored).

When I first tried converting books with EL, it was so simple and so fast that I thought I was in heaven. But after the problems I’ve had with it, I went back to ETI’s eBook Publisher. It may take a few extra clicks and leave me with 4 files for every IMP it makes, but I haven’t crashed my reader or gotten an unreadable book yet.