Book format question ( about books ive converted )

[askyn]

Hi again /wave

Little back ground, I currently have a ebookwise 1150 ( have my PB360 on order and coming soon ), as such I have a lot of books ive converted over to Imp format.

In the process of which Ive created RTF versions as backups to be able to format and edit errors etc.

My question is, would it be better to convert the RTF books over to epub to read them ? or leave them as RTF and read them that way?

I dont mind convertting them again ( some nice utilites here etc ), but woudl there be a advantage to it with the 360 as it has support for RTF?

Thank you

[SharonFruit]

I'm not very sure how you can do it, but if you find a way to convert your rtfs to FB2s, you'd enjoy this great format!

[JSWolf]

Go with ePub. ePub is the standard now and if you were to purchase yet another reader, you'd be able to read them.

[fjtorres]

...on the other hand, the PB360 will display the RTFs nicely as is, with no effort required.

Still, if you have the time to convert to epub (calibre can do the honors well enough) and you use the updated FBReader, you *will* get a nicer presentation with proper chapter breaks.

Just make sure to keep the rtfs handy.
History has shown that a lot of "eternal" standards turn out to have shorter lives.
Rtfs, however, are likely to join cockroaches at the end of time.

[JSWolf]

Doesn't the PB360 support ADE? If you are stuck with FBReader for ePub, I'd send it back.

[kacir]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Doesn't the PB360 support ADE?

It does.
But FBReader is, in my opinion, much better program for reading epubs. It allows me to override any formating epub has to my liking.

[askyn]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

...on the other hand, the PB360 will display the RTFs nicely as is, with no effort required.

Still, if you have the time to convert to epub (calibre can do the honors well enough) and you use the updated FBReader, you *will* get a nicer presentation with proper chapter breaks.

Just make sure to keep the rtfs handy.
History has shown that a lot of "eternal" standards turn out to have shorter lives.
Rtfs, however, are likely to join cockroaches at the end of time.

Oooh i wasnt planning on getting rid of the RTFs =)

thats my "backup / storage" format of choice so that ill always have access to the books I buy.

Hmm ok based on responses ... what I think ill do is when i get the 360 ill take a book and convert it to epub and check out both copies on it.

one of the things thats been driving me nuts ( and yeah its strange ), is the fact that in the RTF I have new chapters starting on a new page, just makes sense to me. When i read them on 1150 it just runs em together, so ill try and see what happens=)

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Doesn't the PB360 support ADE? If you are stuck with FBReader for ePub, I'd send it back.

Oh, the PB360 has full Adobe kool-aid support; a decent enough implemenation, too, with dictionary, search, links that work, etc.
But the consensus among us PB360 owners is that for DRM-free reading, the Pocketbook platform's implementation of FBReader is head and shoulders above any ADE out there.

For details, check this:
http://code.google.com/p/fbreader-po...eader180_guide

The thing is, like the PB360 itself, almost totally configurable to the reader's specs. There are 19 separate top-level customization settings, beyond the ability to use any TrueType/Opentype font at prety much any font size. One of those top-level settings leads to a custom style-sheet function that lets you define another 37 settings, *each* getting 14 parameters or so.

Not to say to say it is perfect (proper Chapter breaks are only detected/implemented for ePub--most defiitely *NOT* for RTF) and it does lack some of the features of Coolreader on, say, the Hanlins, but it is (like the PB360 itself) rock solid stable and getting better fast. (Plus, turning pages by flicking the reader is kinda cool.)

The good news is that the PB360 lets you set the default reader app so a single button press will open it with the reader app of *your* choice and a long-press opens up a file management menu that allows among any other things, opening it with the alternate reader.

So, basically, if you want your reading display parameters defined by somebody else, you can use ADE. Or if you want it *your* way, you use FBReader.

Most of us seem to prefer FBReader.
(One of these days somebody ought to run a poll.)