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rbdavis · 01-08-2011, 06:42 PM

Hello all,

I am new to this forum and to calibre, I apologize if this question has been answered before.

I am trying to get a .txt download from Project Gutenberg Australia onto my Kindle 3. I can get the file

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100201.txt

loaded into calibre and from there to my Kindle 3, but no matter what I do original line breaks from the .txt source file get passed all the way through to my Kindle. Each line is a word or two too long to fit on a single Kindle line and so I get text that looks like this on the Kindle:

It was in the Fall of nineteen seventeen at an officers'
training camp
that I first became acquainted with John Carter, War Lord
of Barsoom,
through the pages of your novel "A Princess of Mars." The story
made a
profound impression upon me and while my better judgment
assured me

Very unreadable! I have tried loading the file to the Kindle in its original txt format as well as using calibre to convert it to MOBI with a variety of different text justification settings from the Look&Feel dialog, but nothing I do gets rid of these awful word wraps.

This has got to be a very common task I should think. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

01-08-2011, 06:42 PM	#1
rbdavis Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle Voyage	word wrap issues on Kindle from .txt Hello all, I am new to this forum and to calibre, I apologize if this question has been answered before. I am trying to get a .txt download from Project Gutenberg Australia onto my Kindle 3. I can get the file http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100201.txt loaded into calibre and from there to my Kindle 3, but no matter what I do original line breaks from the .txt source file get passed all the way through to my Kindle. Each line is a word or two too long to fit on a single Kindle line and so I get text that looks like this on the Kindle: It was in the Fall of nineteen seventeen at an officers' training camp that I first became acquainted with John Carter, War Lord of Barsoom, through the pages of your novel "A Princess of Mars." The story made a profound impression upon me and while my better judgment assured me Very unreadable! I have tried loading the file to the Kindle in its original txt format as well as using calibre to convert it to MOBI with a variety of different text justification settings from the Look&Feel dialog, but nothing I do gets rid of these awful word wraps. This has got to be a very common task I should think. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!