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Originally Posted by Lanx
So does anyone have any preferred formats and methods? the calibre-epub seems to work, tho you loose a lot of format but it's better than mobi, atm.
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Caveat: I am really new at ebook formatting, and I don't like spending much time at it, so I've just learned a few techniques and they seem to carry me through most of my ebook conversions (not all). Note that jgray and Kris777 have been the ones to provide links/descriptions to all of this info.
1. I don't do anything with TXT & RTF, since they display just fine. EPUB also seems to work OK for typical books.
2. PDF from text (not images) - I use the PDF program to crop (Document->Crop Pages->All) the white space of the margins. Then I export as text. TXT displays quite well on the jetBook. (note: any annoying headers/footers can be Find/Replaced out). Many times, just removing the margins and viewing it in landscape mode is fine - no conversion required.
3. LIT files. Use LIT converter to convert to TXT. Looked at all possible formats - txt display best (and quite well in general). If there are annoying header/footers you can fiddle around with Find/Replace and RTF format.
4. Some sites, such as manybooks.net, have a "Custom PDF" option where you can format PDF to the jetBooks specs (70mm x 90mm with 3mm margins) - this works great.
5. MS Word docs - save as RTF. You can specify page size to 70 x 90 mm - but that doesn't really seem to make any difference.
Again, this is real quick, basic formatting that takes just a minute or two per book. Considering I may read 1 or 2 books a week it's very little overhead time. That's about all I've done so far, but I have enough reads to last me for quite a while!