Have created EPUB version of iami1 blog book for download for smartphone and other ebook reading devices & apps

Last updated on 20th July 2018

Today (19th July 2018) I faced a case of a USA based Facebook friend being interested in reading my "Who am I? I am I – Ultimate Existential Reality Answer; Vedanta; God and Science conversation" iami1.wordpress.com blogbook on her smartphone device. The PDF file download was not suitable.

That prompted me to work on providing an epub format file generated using an online converter. Of course, besides her there may be others who would like to read my ebook on their smartphone and so it was a generic issue and not specific to her alone.

So I have now got an epub format file available for download which I was able to read using Lithium free ebook reader on my inexpensive (cheap) Android smartphone. BTW I am somewhat new to smartphones and so am far from being an expert on smartphones (my comfort zone is the PC/computer).

The reading experience of the epub file using Lithium app on my smartphone is far superior to reading the PDF file on my smartphone as the Lithium app reflows the text of the epub file. It does have some blank pages and the pics in the first two pages do not get shown very well. But those are minor issues, IMHO, which the online automatic generator process could not resolve on its own. I am reluctant to spend additional time now on exploring whether I can fix these minor problems using an EPUB editor program. Maybe I will do it later sometime.

The key thing is that the main text contents are easily readable on the smartphone Android device. I also used Calibre and Icecream ebook reader applications on the PC (Windows) to read the EPUB file. Both these PC apps rendered the EPUB file well (was easily readable), barring the minor problems mentioned earlier.

I DID NOT FACE any virus warning for the epub file either on my computer or on my smartphone (both of which have anti-virus checking software installed).

I used a free online Word to epub converter website to create the epub: https://www.online-convert.com. I don't know whether it introduces any virus in the converted epub file but I doubt it as it is listed as one of the top online ebook converters in this review: https://www.epubor.com/best-online-epub-converters-review.html. But I cannot guarantee it.

If readers are using an Android smartphone, they may want to check with their local security expert/guru whether they should download and try to read the epub file using an epub reader app (like Lithium free app available for download on Google Play) on their smartphone. If the local security expert/guru gives them the go-ahead here's the epub file download link: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1KfRZ_hnJylAjDC1RxLMQrPWDzcVfaeR7

On my Android smartphone, simply clicking on the above link, opens the file on the Google drive itself (without seeming to download the file). So I could view the file in Lithium app but was not sure whether the file was downloaded to the device.

To download the file, I had to press on the link (instead of tap) which gave me the option to download the link and on choosing it, the file got downloaded onto my Android device (smartphone). Then I could open the file in my Downloads folder on the smartphone using the Lithium ebook app.

The download page on iami1 blog i.e. https://iami1.wordpress.com/consolidated-blog-content-document/ has been updated to have the EPUB file download link.
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Also used Aldiko ebook reader on my LYF (inexpensive) Android smartphone. That too read the EPUB format file well.