Thread: DX not displaying "Google books" illustrations???
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Old 07-01-2009, 07:48 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by sroys View Post
I think the problem is that they're .bmp images, which the DX won't handle
Google books include a mixture of JBIG2 and JPEG2000 images, see Google Books: making the public domain universally accessible. These are often problematic on sub-par PDF viewers. Under Windows PDF95 can produce readable versions (at least for the iLiad), see problem opening pdf files from books.google.com (look at post #10).

Another possibility is to get the ePub versions from the Sony ebook store and convert them to MOBI using Calibre. I have not tried this, and I would be interested in hearing how well this works on the KDX.
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