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XP: Yes, installing on a fine XP Pro computer, still being used for other ebook software (not currently doing ebook work on later OS).
NET: Yes I have it; NET 4 came from Windows Update a long time ago.Regardless, the setup program should check, and either install needed extra package, or report a better error.
Was removed by Norton as unsafe.
The same issue:
“INSTALLATION INCOMPLETE
The installer was interrupted before Alfa eBooks Manager 5 could be installed.
You need to restart the installer and try again.
Click “Close” to exit.”Windows XP Pro SP3, .NET 4 installed.
(was my previous post lost, or should I wait for approval?)
(ok, I’ll try again)
Julia expressed my own feelings. I have a lot of ebooks, many of them in epub format – so it should not have difficult to get the ISBN in their metadata – but scanning returned nothing. Then I tried to import my list of books from Goodreads, and the result was abysmal: fields are selected and applied at random, and I had to remove the db since it was useless. Even if Alfa did not know the semantics of the fields used by Goodreads, I would have expected that the software would have presented me a sample line, asking to put the fields in the correct position…
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Hi, all EPUB files should have the standard metadata fields regardless of the site they were downloaded from
Could you please send a couple of your epub files to [email protected][@Alfaebooks] I stand corrected about the scan. The user interface tricked me: I have more than 1500 books, and when I noticed that the status was 0/900 I stopped the scan. Now I tried with a smaller set of 90 books, and I noticed that after scanning all of them the status went to 0/89 to 90/90. Books in PDF and DJVU format are often mislabeled, but I can stand it. What I still don’t understand is why import from Goodreads is so bad.
