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Originally Posted by Pi Squared
Background - so far most of my reading is text. I have no over-riding need for images or diagrams. Most of my books have arrived with me as plain ASCII files and I've tried converting these in the Sony software and Calibre to other formats.
Summary of what I like -
full justification (high weighting for me);
good choice of fonts (esp sans serif) (high weighting);
quick opening file on PRS505 (nice to have but not essential);
author, title and series/collection visible in PRS505 (high, high and fairly high);
minimal editing/formatting software and knowledge needed (e.g. Word, plus explorer to copy file to PRS505) (very high)
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Hi, I came from the same place as you (lots of stored text documents) but I gave up on RTF about two days after getting my 505.
RTF has a lot going for it (lots of high quality and stable editors available for it; mature format; just enough formatting/markup for fiction and other mostly text, serial documents) but on the 505 it has enough drawbacks that I don't use it unless I am too lazy to convert something.
The reasons are:
- stuck with the stock Sony fonts
- no hyperlinks
- no included metadata; you need to use something like Calibre if you want the right book title and authour to show up or if you want the tag collections
- no table of contents
To me the big one is custom fonts. I value the ability to use my own font more than I care about justification. If you break up the document into manageable pieces, then loading and resizing are fast.
If you have HTML as source, you are pretty close to having an epub anyway so I don't understand why you say that lacks editability for you.