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About Downloads


At this time we still only have downloading thru your browser. We have made no special provisions for direct downloads to reader devices. If your device can download from a plain vanilla web site, it should work, but the only case we have tested is downloading a .PDF to an older android phone. The following are methods that will download these files on a few common browsers. In the examples in these directions, we're using Yoonbarla as the example file.

Browsers like to give all kinds of warnings about downloading files, but we don't even know how to make a file that would hurt your computer.

Most of the stories are available in ePub format. If ePub is available, the download button is split in half. Clicking on the left side will download the PDF file, the right side will do the ePub file. If the button does not have tabs, only PDF is available and the directions for downloading PDF's should be followed.

Nothing has changed in the method of downloading PDF's, we have only added to the notes about how to do it.

Downloading ePub files

PDF Files

PDF is a file standard for printable media, though they are usually viewed on a screen using the Adobe Reader. Currently some of these PDFs are formatted so they can be printed double sided, some have been converted to a more phone and tablet friendly format. In some, the cover picture, such as it is, has a trade paperback aspect ratio. The alternating margins do not prevent reading them directly from the file.

Using Safari Internet Explorer 6 Internet Explorer 8

Screen shot of PDF download left click in Mozilla

Mozilla Firefox

As seen at right, a left click using Firefox brings up a standard download box. You can chose to have it open the file in Adobe Reader, or save it to disk. If you open it in the reader you can save it to disk from there. Saving it to disk as is shown in this picture will save it to the 'Downloads' directory on a MAC.



Screen shot of ePub right click menu in Mozilla

If you use a right click (or control click if you have a single button mouse) in Mozilla, you will get the menu shown at right. From this menu you choose the 'Save link as...' and get the next box shown below it.



Screen shot of PDF 'save as' menu in Mozilla

From this you can save the file anywhere you want. It will be ready for use as soon as the download is complete.

This is the standard file save dialog box for OSX. It might come up small. Use the arrow next to the file name to enlarge it to this form if you want.



Screen shot of PDF download left click in Safari

Safari

If you left click on the PDF half of the download button using Safari, the file will come up in Safari itself. You then need to use the 'File' menu item on the top line to get the menu shown at right.

Chose 'Save as...' and you'll get the file save dialog, shown beyond the one for right click.



Screen shot of PDF download right click in Safari

Right click (or control click if you have a single button mouse) on the PDF side of the download button in Safari to bring up this menu. Choose the 'Save linked file as...'

That will get you to the standard file save dialog shown below.



Screen shot of PDF download 'save as' in Safari

From this you can save the file wherever you want it. The box may come up small, allowing you to save it only in a first level directory, or you can press the arrow next to the file name to get this larger version that allows you to save it anywhere on the disk.

As soon as the download completes, the file is then ready to use.

We have seen cases where the user interface behaves as if the download is complete before it actually is. Check using Finder to see that the file is there and not some work file with a .part file name extension.



Screen shot of PDF download 'save as' in IE6

Internet Explorer 6

Some people with older hardware who are tired of rebuilding their hard drive after attempting updates are are still running this.

If you left click the PDF side of the download button, the file will come up in an embedded copy of Adobe Reader. From there you can use the floppy disk button in the embedded PDF reader to save the file.

If you right click on the PDF side of the download button you will get the menu shown at right. Choose the 'Save Target As...' selection.

You will then get a standard file save dialog that should be pretty familiar. The file will be ready for use as soon as the download completes.



Internet Explorer 8

At this time we have not tested downloading PDF files with IE8. There is no reason to believe it will work any differently than with IE6.


ePub

ePub is an open standard for ebook publication used by several major e-readers including the Sony, the Barnes and Noble Nook and the iPad. These files have been generated using open source tools and tested on the Calibre ebook management system and the Nook e-reader device. We welcome comments from anyone trying them on any other devices.

Because the ePub document is really a ZIP file containing some HTML files and some XML files, some browsers will recognize it as a ZIP file and save it as such. It may be necessary to do some renaming of the resulting file. That is noted for each browser.

Using Safari Internet Explorer 6 Internet Explorer 8

Screen shot of epub download left click in Mozilla

Mozilla Firefox

So far in our testing this is the only browser that correctly downloads the ePub files with no file renaming or other complications.

As shown at right, Mozilla will save the file easily with a left click on the ePub section of the download button. This will save to the 'Downloads' directory on a MAC.

The file is ready for use as soon as it downloads. Most people will want to move it out of the downloads directory into someplace more convenient.


Screen shot of ePub right click menu in Mozilla

If you use a right click (or control click if you have a single button mouse) in Mozilla, you will get the menu shown at right. From this menu you choose the 'Save Link As...' and get the file save dialog box shown below it.



Screen shot of ePub 'save as' menu in Mozilla

This is the file save dialog box shown in its small form. You can make it larger using the arrow next to the file name.

From this box, you can save it to Downloads, which is exactly what you get with the left click, or you can change the destination directory.

The file will not have any extra name extensions, it will be ready for use as soon as the download completes.



Screen shot of ePub right click menu in Safari

Safari

There is no left click that will do anything useful with the ePub file when using Safari. It simply vomits the .epub file onto the screen. As the .ePub file is compressed, this looks pretty scary, but the program has not disemboweled itself. The Page Back button gets you out of that.

A right click (or control click if you have the one-button mouse) and you will get the menu of options shown.

The 'Save linked file to "Downloads"' option will download the file, but will add a .txt extension as in 'yoonbarla.epub.txt'. You must rename the file to remove the .txt, as 'yoonbarla.epub'.



Screen shot of 'save as' menu in Safari

If you use the 'Save linked file as...' menu selection you will get the file save dialog shown at right. If this box comes up small, you can use the arrow next to the file name to enlarge it as shown here.

Note that Safari has appended an extra .txt file name extension to it. You can edit that off right here, or wait and rename the file after it is downloaded.




If you edit off the .TXT at this point, you will get the warning shown below as soon as you press 'Save'. Choose the 'Don't append' action (NOT what is shown in the screen shot) to get a usable file. If you let it put the .txt on the file name, you will have to rename it to make the file usable.

Screen shot of 'save as' menu in Safari

Screen shot of left click dialog in IE6 for ePub

Internet Explorer 6

Some people with older hardware who are tired of rebuilding their hard drive after attempting updates are are still running this.

Left click on the ePub half of the button and you will get a dialog asking you permission to download a file. This version of Internet Explorer does not recognize the file as an ePub, but only as a ZIP. It warns you that it doesn't know what is in the file and thinks it could be malicious code. It is not. Click 'save'.

Yes, you can see that this test was done locally. For security reasons we do not allow a Microsoft machine to ACTUALLY touch the internet.



Screen shot of right click menu in IE6 for epub

Right click gets you a menu, choose 'Save Target As...'

Both cases wind up at a Windows standard dialog that lets you select the destination.

In either case (right or left click) it will save with a .zip appended to the file name, as in yoonbarla.epub.zip. Rename it without the .zip so it is like yoonbarla.epub

Changing the file extension in this case will make the file usable, not unusable.



Internet Explorer 8

Left click on the ePub half of the button will download the file but it will change the name from yoonbarla.epub to yoonbarla.zip

Rename the file to yoonbarla.epub again. Ignore the warning about making it unusable, you need to do this to make it usable.


If you right click, you will be given the option to change the name from yoonbarla.zip to yoonbarla.epub

The file will be downloaded as yoonbarla.epub.zip. Rename to yoonbarla.epub. Ignore the warning about changing the file name extension, you need to change it to make it usable.