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Old 11-30-2007, 03:55 PM   #5
ks4au
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Device: Sony PRS-505,MIO PDA
The reader is supposed to handle plain old txt files, and of course, EVERYONE knows that there are more than 10K books on project Gutenburg, as TXT files. When using a .lit reader, I wrote a simple QBASIC program to convert txt to html...adding in <BR> on blank lines, etc, then I ran the HTML into .LIT files. Some books took a while to convert, because I also looked for chapter numbers and the word Chapter, then inserted headings around the chapter titles, and tags for a TOC. I could do a large book in about 2 hours, but when I was done, I had a good looking book in the .LIT format.

I just pushed an openSSL license.txt up to the sony reader, and it needed a little formatting, like the removal of line feeds inside of paragraphs, but TXT works fine on the Sony reader prs-505, That would be easy to do, just add a line feed whenever finding a blank line, and concatinate the rest.

JimB
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