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DebbyS · 08-11-2011, 09:30 PM

A brief report and a moderately brief question.

My Jetbook Lite came today (8/11) about a week after I ordered it from J&R and in time for my vacation next week! I’m quite pleased with the speed of the service and plan to tell them so. I’ll also be sure to check them for other toys I need.

I’ve only played a bit with the JBL and will get more into it when I have more books to put on in it, then I can also report again. I can say that due to going back about 25 pages into this thread and reading anything that seemed JBL related, I was ready for several of the challenges that came with first use. I recommend that anyone waiting for the arrival of their JBL take a look at the great resource this particular part of the forum provides.

My question. I know there is only a smallish amount of room in the memory (would it be RAM? maybe "storage" is more accurate) of the JBL, and a bunch of it is taken up by free books. One can add more books to that as well. The user can also put books on a card and slip that in. It will be easier for me to put my large, home-made PDFs on the card than in that wee bit of built-in memory.

But! Does the JBL, say, copy the book I want to read from the card into that wee bit of memory (or try & fail if it is too big a book) and then try (and fail) to manipulate it from that internal memory so I can read the book, or does the JBL work with the card and it’s much bigger memory? Another way to put it might be: if I have a book that is too big for the internal memory so I put it on the card... will JBL balk at that or happily work with the card?

I hope this question makes sense. I scan books at a high resolution and it turns out I can read them on a large computer screen if I wish because the letters are sharp. If the book is old and turning yellow, I scan that book at gray scale and increase the contrast so the resulting pages look as much black and white as possible. However, this makes for a larger PDF than if the book were newer and the paper nearly white (and can be scanned at Black and White). My new JBL was able to show one of these latter, originally B&W scanned books pretty well, about half a page at a time once I remembered to turn off the Flow and tell it Fit to Width (which I read back around page 22 or so here

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I hope JBL loves cards because I don't want to go looking for a PDF splitter or wind up buying the books in some ereader format (and spending money again on the same book).

08-11-2011, 09:30 PM	#28
DebbyS Zealot Posts: 115 Karma: 1472692 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Albuquerque, NM Device: Jetbook Lite; Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0)	A brief report and a moderately brief question. My Jetbook Lite came today (8/11) about a week after I ordered it from J&R and in time for my vacation next week! I’m quite pleased with the speed of the service and plan to tell them so. I’ll also be sure to check them for other toys I need. I’ve only played a bit with the JBL and will get more into it when I have more books to put on in it, then I can also report again. I can say that due to going back about 25 pages into this thread and reading anything that seemed JBL related, I was ready for several of the challenges that came with first use. I recommend that anyone waiting for the arrival of their JBL take a look at the great resource this particular part of the forum provides. My question. I know there is only a smallish amount of room in the memory (would it be RAM? maybe "storage" is more accurate) of the JBL, and a bunch of it is taken up by free books. One can add more books to that as well. The user can also put books on a card and slip that in. It will be easier for me to put my large, home-made PDFs on the card than in that wee bit of built-in memory. But! Does the JBL, say, copy the book I want to read from the card into that wee bit of memory (or try & fail if it is too big a book) and then try (and fail) to manipulate it from that internal memory so I can read the book, or does the JBL work with the card and it’s much bigger memory? Another way to put it might be: if I have a book that is too big for the internal memory so I put it on the card... will JBL balk at that or happily work with the card? I hope this question makes sense. I scan books at a high resolution and it turns out I can read them on a large computer screen if I wish because the letters are sharp. If the book is old and turning yellow, I scan that book at gray scale and increase the contrast so the resulting pages look as much black and white as possible. However, this makes for a larger PDF than if the book were newer and the paper nearly white (and can be scanned at Black and White). My new JBL was able to show one of these latter, originally B&W scanned books pretty well, about half a page at a time once I remembered to turn off the Flow and tell it Fit to Width (which I read back around page 22 or so here . I hope JBL loves cards because I don't want to go looking for a PDF splitter or wind up buying the books in some ereader format (and spending money again on the same book).