I'm sorry for the problems with downloading epubs and mobi files, everyone. I use Firefox and don't remember testing the files using Internet Explorer, which wasn't a bright move on my part. I tried earlier tonight on IE -- frustrating! Many apologies. But I think it may be solved.
Right-clicking should now let you download the file without having to rename or otherwise do anything special. But you may not have to right-click anymore. Left-clicking should bring up a dialog box that allows you to save the file or open it in an appropriate application (an e-reader like Stanza Desktop or Calibre if you have one installed).
Rereading our epub conversation from another thread, I came across a tip from dcarson about configuring mime types in DocuWiki, which I'd forgotten about. Mime types are what tell browsers how to deal with different file types. I tried that, and then that led to changing the mime types for the entire web site using something called an .htaccess file. Was a night of educational reading!
Now when I click on the mobi and epub icons using either Internet Explorer or Firefox, I get a dialog box asking to either open or save the file. Hope that's what happens for you too.
If anyone has any more problems, please let me know.
Thanks, dcarson!
Michael, do you have your Word converter program somewhere online? We could post a link to it on the archive.
Best wishes,
Lauren
