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theusualuser · 10-30-2010, 04:37 AM

So, I don't know if this is super accurate or not, but I took several formats today and tried to convert them to .fb2 with calibre. I then looked at them using Calibre's built-in viewer, as well as FBreader and STDU Viewer, just to see if any discrepancies popped up.

I found that, for the most part, everything looked like it came over just fine in FB2. LIT came out just fine, as did EPUB and MOBI. TXT had some issues, of course (which have been mentioned above). There was one PDF that I converted that didn't look quite right in STDU Viewer, but in FBreader and Calibre's own viewer it looked just fine.

My question now is this: Does anyone know what kind viewer the various Jetbooks use to view .fb2? I'm assuming that the Jetbook Mini must not use FBreader, since it has no support for EPUB, but maybe the Jetbook and Jetbook Lite do?

10-30-2010, 04:37 AM	#6
theusualuser Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 102 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: none	So, I don't know if this is super accurate or not, but I took several formats today and tried to convert them to .fb2 with calibre. I then looked at them using Calibre's built-in viewer, as well as FBreader and STDU Viewer, just to see if any discrepancies popped up. I found that, for the most part, everything looked like it came over just fine in FB2. LIT came out just fine, as did EPUB and MOBI. TXT had some issues, of course (which have been mentioned above). There was one PDF that I converted that didn't look quite right in STDU Viewer, but in FBreader and Calibre's own viewer it looked just fine. My question now is this: Does anyone know what kind viewer the various Jetbooks use to view .fb2? I'm assuming that the Jetbook Mini must not use FBreader, since it has no support for EPUB, but maybe the Jetbook and Jetbook Lite do? Last edited by theusualuser; 10-30-2010 at 04:56 AM.