[Crook]

Hi,

I've had a PRS 500 for quite a while now, but there have been a few niggling problems with it. I mainly read books in RTF, but I have a few PDF's and LIT's around. I found the conversion tools a bit lacking (or maybe I didn't search well enough) so I've started to write my own.

The problems I've encountered so far are:

some LIT's (converted to .txt) have page numbers embedded in them, and these quite annoyingly happen at the end of a 'page', splitting the line.

Some PDF's (when saved to .txt) are simply a line by line save, with each line being ended with a character return!

When saved as RTF, Word gives the author's name as my name, and this is carried over into my PRS 500


So, my little app does a few things:

Searches for odd 'numbered' page breaks and erases them, rejoining chopped lines

Searches for character return ended lines and removes them when appropriate. It finds paragraphs and adds the lines together to make one correct paragraph. It tries to leave some lines alone (lines of a certain minimum length)

It also can read in the metadata of Author and Title from an RTF file and allow you to edit them easily.


My workflow is as follows:

Get your book in .TXT format, however you can (ABC lit converter, save from PDF etc(

Run it through my app.

Open it up in word and format the title correctly, change font to Arial size 20 (looks good on the PRS) and justify the main text. Save as RTF.

Check the RTF title and author in my app and change if necessary

Import into Connect reader and move to PRS.



This is written in VB, so you'll probably have to be running XP SP2 or Vista for it to work properly, and then maybe need the .NET framework. Other than that I don't know if it'll be useful to many others but It's been useful to me over the last couple of days. Any comments or improvements to make would be welcome.