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Finally took the time to install version 0.4.33 of libprs500 on my iMac. Man, what an improvement over the 0.3.x days! I find it to be an excellent tool for organizing my eBooks due to the search filter and the ability to store multiple formats of each book. The USB interface to the Sony Reader is VERY nice, so I'm now putting my books into the Main memory so that I can do collections. It also does a nearly PERFECT job of converting my purchased (and DRM-stripped) MS Lit files.
Not everything is perfect, though (of course). There are many issues with conversion:
1. Not a good tool for converting Plain Text files to LRF. It removes any indentations and tends to gobble up most carriage returns. I've fiddled with the settings, but it still tends to create one giant, flat paragraph. I find it's better to convert Plain Text to RTF with the OS X "textutil" and then convert from there.
2. Very crash-prone when converting files. It's best to just convert one file at a time.
3. It either needs a hotkey to display MetaData, or there needs to be an option to have ALL MetaData shown in the column display. Numbering books in a collection is a pain. (Select file, edit medata, type book number, click save, select next file, etc...)
4. Available formats should be in Column display so I can see at a glance what I need to convert.
But, for organizing and sending eBooks, this thing is far superior to Sony's interface. Thanks for all your hard work on this!
- Jim
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