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ab7vf · 09-25-2012, 10:16 PM

greetings

as bob dole suggested .. depends ...

back in the bad old days, with a prs-505, I used pdflrf / paper-crop / briss etc to attempt getting useful copy ... It (they, in various combinations) worked ... maybe 70 percent of the time ... text only .. no problem .. boxes, boundaries, tables mostly not

so now I use mostly k2pdfopt to reformat books on a lowly pandigital 6" thingy ... works ok for my use ... Thing is, you've got to experiment ... Set a "Standard" and try various options/programs/formats and see what works for you .. IMHO stock answers like "ipad" "tablet" are less than useless ... in particular since you specified (I thought) e-ink, not lcd ... are there any "ipods .. tablets" that do e-ink?

End of rant ... mostly
Jim

09-25-2012, 10:16 PM	#7
ab7vf Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 296 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Pacific Northwest Device: dxg and newfound Icarus 8	greetings as bob dole suggested .. depends ... back in the bad old days, with a prs-505, I used pdflrf / paper-crop / briss etc to attempt getting useful copy ... It (they, in various combinations) worked ... maybe 70 percent of the time ... text only .. no problem .. boxes, boundaries, tables mostly not so now I use mostly k2pdfopt to reformat books on a lowly pandigital 6" thingy ... works ok for my use ... Thing is, you've got to experiment ... Set a "Standard" and try various options/programs/formats and see what works for you .. IMHO stock answers like "ipad" "tablet" are less than useless ... in particular since you specified (I thought) e-ink, not lcd ... are there any "ipods .. tablets" that do e-ink? End of rant ... mostly Jim Last edited by ab7vf; 09-25-2012 at 10:18 PM.