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Originally Posted by bowiegirl1982
Also, should I convert my ebooks to epubs for the reader? Most are currently pdfs
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pdf is NOT an e-book format.
pdf is a layout representation format, so if you print the document out, or view it on 24 inch monitor it will look the same on all systems. Most pdf files are formatted for Letter or A4 paper, An A4 paper measures 14 inches diagonally, screen on your reader measures 5 inches. How can you display (and read comfortably) an A4 page on a 5" screen that has less than 1/8 of an area?
PocketBook can read many of popular e-book formats without conversion and I prefer not to convert e-books that are directly readable on my device without conversion.
There is no good way of how to convert pdf file nicely. When I have a pdf document I really *really* need and want to read on my device I usually end up running it through an OCR program and saving it as rtf.
Try reading your pdf files directly on PocketBook. They should be useable, but other formats are much better.
As for the source of books.
There are PLENTY of places. Even here, if you look at the top of this page you will see E-Books link.
Also have a look at our wiki
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Free_eBooks
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_stores
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/EBook_Lending_Libraries
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Nota..._at_MobileRead
last but not least, look at this subforum:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=26