06-25-2007, 08:03 AM | #1 |
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Help wanted please.
Just bought a PRS500 today.
and unless I get some help soon, I will have a very expensive doorstop on my hands. How can I download books on to this thing from gutenberg say. I don't understand all the jargon with the file names etc, can anybody help in plain english? Will I have to convert them? How do you convert the files? Please help, cos I'm pulling my hair out here. Thank you.............Ian |
06-25-2007, 08:27 AM | #2 |
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You don't HAVE to do any conversion - you can just copy a PG text file directly onto the Reader, and it will display.
However, as I explained to you in my reply to the Private Message which you sent me, you will get much better results if you do a little conversion, such as using Stingo's "Word" macro to convert the file to RTF, or a tool such as "Book Designer" to convert to the Reader's "native" file format of LRF. |
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06-25-2007, 08:51 AM | #3 |
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Does the Word macro save the line spaces that are supposed to be there? Does it do the quotes and apostrophes to the curly versions?
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06-25-2007, 08:56 AM | #4 |
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The word macro removes all the hard line breaks within a paragraph, leaving either indented paragraphs or paragraphs with a blank line between them, as one prefers. It also sets the font size to something sensible on the Reader - by default I think it sets it to 18pt, but that's easily changed.
It doesn't touch quotes, etc. It's NOT intended to be a fancy conversion tool - just a quick "tidy up" to make a PG text file look pretty nice on the Reader. Take a look for yourself - there's a link to it on the Wiki page. It's what we all used before BD came along and it's still useful for "quick and dirty" processing. |
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Actually, I do it myself manually in Word to clean up things. And that does include prettying up the quotes. And fixing line spaces and line ends as needed
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06-25-2007, 12:24 PM | #6 |
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The Word macro was a "collaborative effort". Stingo wrote it initially, and then lots of people added stuff to it. It works really well!
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06-25-2007, 12:37 PM | #7 |
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What I might do is have a look at this macro and see if I can tweak it to be even better.
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Please do - that's exactly what it's there for!
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06-25-2007, 03:24 PM | #9 |
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Been tinkering all day, finally getting it sorted,
thank you harry Ian. |
06-25-2007, 05:09 PM | #10 |
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Back to the Word Macro for a moment, I use it to prepare books before I load them into BookDesigner. I feel I have more control over the text and that it does a better job of fixing the paragraphs than BookDesigner alone.
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06-25-2007, 05:53 PM | #11 |
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I do exactly the same when downloading text files, or anything with scanning errors. I find it easier to make the initial edit in Word, then load the material into BD for a final edit.
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06-26-2007, 09:11 AM | #13 |
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If you plan on spell checking the book, Word is definitely better then BD. Word will allow you to ignore a word throughout where BD you either keep ignore every instance or add it to the dictionary. And I like using word for getting the curly quote and apostrophe. They just look nicer.
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