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rpresser · 03-07-2008, 11:58 PM

I'm a longtime listener, first time caller ...

I've been reading ebooks since Project Gutenberg first appeared; my first foray into electronic readers was playing around with the DOC format on my Palm III. Later I bought an REB1100 on ebay, and when it died early in 2007 I bought an EBookWise-1150. I've been buying books at Fictionwise for about six years; I read Scientific American (PDF) regularly, and Analog and Asimov's occasionally.

Through the "other sources" we all know about I have vastly more ebooks than I will ever read, but of very mixed quality. I still buy stuff at Fictionwise because it is always good quality.

Just before ConvertLit first hit the scene, I converted a purchased LIT book to RB by using a script to printscreen each page in the Windows LIT reader, then running OCR on the resulting images, then cleaning it all up. All to please my wife so she could read her favorite book in bed (which we have TWO paper editions of, in addition to the purchased LIT now). She's taken over the EBW1150 as her own now; I'm lucky if I get to read from it a few times a month. :-) So I read in Mobipocket on my phone (Treo 600) or at a desktop or laptop screen occasionally. Maybe I'll demand a second EBW1150 for my birthday -- or maybe one of the new ET epaper machines if we can find some spare money :-)

So that's me. I'm in southern New Jersey.

03-07-2008, 11:58 PM	#1
rpresser Member Posts: 18 Karma: 84 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Ebookwise1150, Treo 600	Greetings and salutations from New Jersey I'm a longtime listener, first time caller ... I've been reading ebooks since Project Gutenberg first appeared; my first foray into electronic readers was playing around with the DOC format on my Palm III. Later I bought an REB1100 on ebay, and when it died early in 2007 I bought an EBookWise-1150. I've been buying books at Fictionwise for about six years; I read Scientific American (PDF) regularly, and Analog and Asimov's occasionally. Through the "other sources" we all know about I have vastly more ebooks than I will ever read, but of very mixed quality. I still buy stuff at Fictionwise because it is always good quality. Just before ConvertLit first hit the scene, I converted a purchased LIT book to RB by using a script to printscreen each page in the Windows LIT reader, then running OCR on the resulting images, then cleaning it all up. All to please my wife so she could read her favorite book in bed (which we have TWO paper editions of, in addition to the purchased LIT now). She's taken over the EBW1150 as her own now; I'm lucky if I get to read from it a few times a month. :-) So I read in Mobipocket on my phone (Treo 600) or at a desktop or laptop screen occasionally. Maybe I'll demand a second EBW1150 for my birthday -- or maybe one of the new ET epaper machines if we can find some spare money :-) So that's me. I'm in southern New Jersey.