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allovertheglobe
10-12-2008, 03:59 AM
OK, I only now got around to try some HTML files (my old hand-formatted strict HTML/OPF ebooks, and some more recent ones)... How to describe it... err... I guess iRex thinks that HTML is really plain text with some useless tags in it, which you simply ignore... wow... :blink:

No inline images, no formatting to speak of, no links to other HTML files, CSS files are unrecognized... I feel like it's 1998 and I'm back on my REB1100... anybody else had better luck?

I get the impression iRex focused on fairly solid PDF support out of the gate and everything else fell on the wayside...

BTW. RTF format is definitely not recognized.

wallcraft
10-12-2008, 07:14 AM
I get the impression iRex focused on fairly solid PDF support out of the gate and everything else fell on the wayside... I assume that HTML will eventually be handled by the web browser that iRex is preparing for the DR1000SW, which clearly isn't ready yet.

At present you best bet is to convert HTML off-line to MOBI. Windows MobiPocket Reader (or Creator, or the command-line mobigen) can import single-file HTML and OEB ebooks (import the .opf file) and export MOBI. So can mobi2mobi. If you have multi-file HTML without a .opf, use Calibre's any2epub to get an ePub and convert it to MOBI using Windows MobiPocket Reader. However, MobiPocket's import of ePub isn't perfect yet (no TOC for example).

allovertheglobe
10-12-2008, 04:48 PM
I guess I could do that... Ugh... Another proprietary format to deal with... and I assume that probably only the Windows version of the software supports the DR1000, like Adobe's Digital Editions and the Sony reader?