I have spent almost 3 weeks with my EZ reader and have settled in to the book formats that work/don't work for me. I have books in Lit, Mobi, epub, HTML, PDF, eReader, and LRF.
What doesn't work:
- LRF are for my Sony 505 and work will on it, but nothing else.
- Since I decided to get an EZ Reader, I started collecting epub books when they were available. I can't seem to get an epub book without at least a few problems on the EZ Reader. A bunch of them come out with the text for the whole book centered.
- Lit books are a mixed blessing. They work well enough to be readable but the font is way to small and by the time I increase it to the largest size, the display goes into landscape mode.
- HTML without some cleanup. Again, font size is the main issue.
What works:
- Mobi books, both DRM and non-DRM. If I only had the EZ Reader, this is the only format I would get books in.
- PDF from Feedbooks. These are sized for book readers and work well.
- Cleaned up HTML from other book formats.
- PDF created from cleaned up HTML from other book formats.
I create PDF from other formats by:
- Convert the original format to HTML.
- Clean up the HTML. This is usually adding a <font size="6"> at the top of the file and sometimes changing <br> to <br><br> to get a blank line between paragraphs.
- Open the HTML file in OpenOffice. Assuming the HTML marks chapters with the <h1> tag, OpenOffice can generate a Table of Contents for the book.
- Save as PDF from OpenOffice. The resulting PDF works well in the EZ Reader.
At this point, most of the books I buy will be Mobi format because they work well on the EZ Reader and can be converted to LRF via Calibre.