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Old 11-21-2007, 11:36 AM   #46
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You don't get a choice of fonts, but you do get a choice of 6 sizes. I don't know if additional fonts can be embedded in a book or not. I also don't think it supports uploading fonts.
But I do hope that changes sometime in the future. I am not exactly in love with the font they are using. To me, it seems one step away from Courier. I'm a simple Times New Roman fan when it comes to reading novels.
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Old 11-21-2007, 11:37 AM   #47
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Have you tried a PalmDOC book? These are not mentioned as being supported but standard MobiPocket software supports them even though they don't advertise the fact much. You can choose from thousands of titles in PalmDOC format over at Memoware. It would be nice to know if they can be read. You might have to change the extension to .prc but hopefully not.

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I tried it. It didn't work.
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Old 11-21-2007, 11:49 AM   #48
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Sorry Nate, what do you mean "the forum is losing posts"?
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Old 11-21-2007, 12:02 PM   #49
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Sorry Nate, what do you mean "the forum is losing posts"?
At least three of my posts have disappeared in the last couple days after I knew that I had posted them.
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Old 11-21-2007, 12:04 PM   #50
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Nobody's been deleting posts, Nate, I promise you. We have been moving threads into the appropriate forum sub-sections, but that's all. No deletions!
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Old 11-21-2007, 12:06 PM   #51
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Nobody's been deleting posts, Nate, I promise you. We have been moving threads into the appropriate forum sub-sections, but that's all. No deletions!
I didn't say they were deleted. I was trying to say that the forum is doing it on its own.

If I had thought you were deleting posts, I would send a pm and ask.
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Old 11-21-2007, 03:59 PM   #52
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I tried it. It didn't work.
Thanks, too bad but I suppose if they supported DOC files they would have mentioned it.

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Old 11-21-2007, 07:26 PM   #53
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Yes. It worked fine.
Cool!

Even better, I just got shipment notice on mine - should be here Monday - 2 days earlier than expected!
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Old 11-21-2007, 07:30 PM   #54
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Old 11-23-2007, 01:13 PM   #55
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You don't get a choice of fonts, but you do get a choice of 6 sizes. I don't know if additional fonts can be embedded in a book or not. I also don't think it supports uploading fonts.
Actually I don't know if the individual user can embed fonts in a book, but I have noticed that in some of the Kindle edition books I've bought there are different fonts being used. Sorry I don't know enough about how e-readers do the font thing, but the font used in the Kindle Edition of Gus Lee's "Courage" is the one that I wish was standard on my reader...
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Old 11-26-2007, 11:45 AM   #56
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When you download from the kindle store do you get the option of saving to internal memory or the SD card? TIA
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Old 11-26-2007, 04:05 PM   #57
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If you download via Whispernet it goes into the Kindle's memory. If you download to your PC then you can drag and drop the file where ever you want.
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Old 11-26-2007, 04:07 PM   #58
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If you download via Whispernet it goes into the Kindle's memory. If you download to your PC then you can drag and drop the file where ever you want.
But once it's there, you can easily move things between SD and main memory.
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Old 11-27-2007, 09:49 AM   #59
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Has anyone tried downloading a local library e-book which are normally in mobipocket or pdf with DRM and been able to display it on the Kindle? Since the 505 doesn't accomodate either, I can't take advantage of library texts.
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