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jfontana · 01-06-2010, 04:21 PM

Thanks a lot, Frabjous. You know? linguists love Lewis Carroll. The Jabberwocky, for instance, is a a little jewel to demonstrate how language works and I use it for some of my classes.

Anyway, your pictures give me an idea of what can be accomplished with a little screen and some nice utilities like sopdf. The problem, I guess, is that you have to have a Sony reader if you want to use sopdf, am I right?

How does sopdf work? Does it simply convert formats or does it create an image of the PDF page? I tried a similar utility called pdfread with an iLiad reader and the results were not so great. The characters appeared jagged and that made reading a little less pleasant. As I said, I also tried to convert pdfs to the mobi format using calibre and the graphics and special characters were all messed up. I'm surprised sopdf does so well with the conversion. From your pictures it looks like it preserves everything pretty much like in the original.

JM

01-06-2010, 04:21 PM	#14
jfontana Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: iLiad	Thanks a lot, Frabjous. You know? linguists love Lewis Carroll. The Jabberwocky, for instance, is a a little jewel to demonstrate how language works and I use it for some of my classes. Anyway, your pictures give me an idea of what can be accomplished with a little screen and some nice utilities like sopdf. The problem, I guess, is that you have to have a Sony reader if you want to use sopdf, am I right? How does sopdf work? Does it simply convert formats or does it create an image of the PDF page? I tried a similar utility called pdfread with an iLiad reader and the results were not so great. The characters appeared jagged and that made reading a little less pleasant. As I said, I also tried to convert pdfs to the mobi format using calibre and the graphics and special characters were all messed up. I'm surprised sopdf does so well with the conversion. From your pictures it looks like it preserves everything pretty much like in the original. JM