Bhante Sujato's translation on Google Play Books

seniya · May 9, 2019, 11:52pm

Now we have Bhante Sujato’s translation of 4 Nikayas in Google Play Book, which can be downloaded freely by Android users:

Long Discourses (DN):

Middle Discourses (MN):

Linked Discourses (SN):

Numbered Discourses (AN):

Verses of Senior Monks (Thag):

Verses of Senior Nuns (Thig):

You can also search the ebooks using keyword “sujato” or “suttacentral” on Google Play Books to find all these ebooks.

Enjoy

Viveka · May 10, 2019, 12:25am

Many Thanks for that @seniya

vimalanyani · May 10, 2019, 1:09am

The links don’t work in Sri Lanka. I get the message that the books are “not available in my country”.

seniya · May 10, 2019, 1:25am

Oops, I’m sorry, Google Play Books isn’t available in Sri Lanka yet:

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2843119?hl=en

vimalanyani · May 10, 2019, 3:39am

Thanks for checking!

Robbie · May 10, 2019, 11:12am

I have shortened the URLs so that the books can easily be shared.

Khemarato.bhikkhu · May 10, 2019, 11:57pm

@Robbie - Can you also put up the SuttaCentral edition of “The Book of the Discipline”?

seniya · May 11, 2019, 3:44am

Do you mean publishing The Book of the Discipline on Google Play Book? If yes, sure I will make it available on Google Play Books too

Khemarato.bhikkhu · May 11, 2019, 4:11am

Oh my bad! I got confused! Sorry @seniya!

Yes that’s what I meant

Khemarato.bhikkhu · March 8, 2023, 8:55am

@seniya - Is it possible to update these with the latest epubs?

seniya · March 9, 2023, 10:10pm

Yes, Bhante, I will update the Google play books asap…

Khemarato.bhikkhu · March 9, 2023, 10:14pm

Awesome! Thanks

Do you know how this works for those of us who have already “purchased” and downloaded the books on Google Play? Will I have to redownload? Repurchase? Or will it update automagically?

seniya · March 10, 2023, 2:10pm

Dear Bhante @Khemarato.bhikkhu

I think it should be automatically updated too. I have updated the cover of 4 main Nikayas (the epub content still contains error as below) and your Google Play ebooks should have new cover (but with old version content).

Dear Bhante @sujato,

The newly updated translation epub format cannot be updated to Google Play Books because it contains error according to Google Play Books publisher. For example, this is the error generated from DN epub:

Required: Fix ePub and resubmit

The ePub you submitted has the following errors. These will prevent the book from going live. See the Help Center for more information. Please correct and resubmit.

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* EPUB/dn-pathikavagga.xhtml:943, 109: Error while parsing file: element "j" not allowed here; expected the element end-tag, text, element "a", "abbr", "area", "audio", "b", "bdi", "bdo", "br", "button", "canvas", "cite", "code", "data", "datalist", "del", "dfn", "em", "embed", "epub:switch", "i", "iframe", "img", "input", "ins", "kbd", "label", "link", "map", "mark", "meta", "meter", "ns1:math", "ns2:svg", "object", "output", "picture", "progress", "q", "ruby", "s", "samp", "script", "select", "small", "span", "strong", "sub", "sup", "template", "textarea", "time", "u", "var", "video" or "wbr" (with xmlns:ns1="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg") or an element from another namespace

* EPUB/dn-pathikavagga.xhtml:944, 135: Error while parsing file: element "j" not allowed here; expected the element end-tag, text, element "a", "abbr", "area", "audio", "b", "bdi", "bdo", "br", "button", "canvas", "cite", "code", "data", "datalist", "del", "dfn", "em", "embed", "epub:switch", "i", "iframe", "img", "input", "ins", "kbd", "label", "link", "map", "mark", "meta", "meter", "ns1:math", "ns2:svg", "object", "output", "picture", "progress", "q", "ruby", "s", "samp", "script", "select", "small", "span", "strong", "sub", "sup", "template", "textarea", "time", "u", "var", "video" or "wbr" (with xmlns:ns1="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg") or an element from another namespace

* EPUB/dn-pathikavagga.xhtml:945, 198: Error while parsing file: element "j" not allowed here; expected the element end-tag, text, element "a", "abbr", "area", "audio", "b", "bdi", "bdo", "br", "button", "canvas", "cite", "code", "data", "datalist", "del", "dfn", "em", "embed", "epub:switch", "i", "iframe", "img", "input", "ins", "kbd", "label", "link", "map", "mark", "meta", "meter", "ns1:math", "ns2:svg", "object", "output", "picture", "progress", "q", "ruby", "s", "samp", "script", "select", "small", "span", "strong", "sub", "sup", "template", "textarea", "time", "u", "var", "video" or "wbr" (with xmlns:ns1="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg") or an element from another namespace

seniya · March 12, 2023, 8:50am

I think this error caused by the tag <j> which is invalid HTML tag in the newest translation epub. I have tried to removed the tag and it worked a while, but unknown error occured in the final step:

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Please try uploading the file again, as we may now be able to provide you a more specific error message.

Perhaps the epub format is not matching the Google Play Books standard

Khemarato.bhikkhu · March 12, 2023, 10:37am

There’s a standard Epub validator tool. In addition to the j tag error, I’m getting:

/general_introduction.xhtml(142,485): "https://suttacentral.net/snp" class="text-root" is not a valid URI. (the class is inside the URI somehow?)
blurbs.xhtml(13,60): Fragment identifier is not defined
dn-silakkhandhavagga.xhtml(17,389): Referenced resource "EPUB/endnotes.xhtml" could not be found in the EPUB. (many more like this)

This is in the DN epub, btw

seniya · March 12, 2023, 10:54am

I don’t know the others, but this error message:

because the file endnotes.html which contains Bhante Sujato translation note is unavailable yet in the DN (and other 4 main Nikayas) epub.

sujato · March 12, 2023, 11:29pm

Any validation errors, please post them here, that would be very helpful.

github.com/suttacentral/suttacentral

validate all editions files

opened 06:13AM - 15 Dec 22 UTC

sujato

>This is a proposal for 2023 and is not in current scope. Currently we produc…e the following files in the publications project: - EPUB - HTML - PDF1/a There's no validation step, and in fact the HTML and EPUB files have many validation errors. The PDFs do validate, but this is easily broken, if for example a character is included that is not in the font. The validation errors in HTML and EPUB are minor details, but it would be nice if there were none. We want to produce files that are robust and future-proof and which will work on any device. Also, once validation is required, it will flag any major issues that may be introduced down the road. We should use the "official" validators where possible. 1. Work through each produced file until they produce no errors or warnings. 2. Introduce a validation step in the publications output, so that the files are not produced if there is a validation error. 3. Have a "validated" checkmark on the web UI to tell folks what they're getting. *** - strip `<j>` tags from EPUBs, as they trip validators and don't really have a purpose in EPUB context.

Browsers parse and use custom tags just fine, regardless of what a validator says. The <j> tag is a special element that creates an “enjambment”, i.e. it splits a long line of verse over two lines, like this.

But yeah if Google Play doesn’t like it we should fix it. It’s not really relevant in ereaders anyway (because the reading environment is arbitrary) so we should probably just strip them from there.

Snowbird · February 26, 2024, 11:36pm

If I’m not mistaken, in order for this to be valid it should start with an upper case letter, i.e.<J>. This indicates to the validator as well as the human that this is a custom element.

sujato · March 1, 2024, 7:20am

I don’t think so, tags in HTML are case-independent. Unless you have a source?

Snowbird · March 1, 2024, 7:43am

Well, I can’t find my source but I found one that says the opposite. My memory was that they have to start with uppercase letters because some time down the line new official tags could be created with the same name and having the custom ones uppercase prevents overlap. Maybe that’s just a React thing? @Khemarato.bhikkhu ?

One thing that article says is that they replace divs and spans, which this tag doesn’t. It replaces a <br>, no? It also says that custom tags can’t be self closing. I’m not sure if it applies here.

One thing I can say, though is that it makes reusing the data a little more complicated.

When I look at one on the site, it’s kind of odd. It doesn’t seem to render. And the browser automatically creates a close tag.