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Here are my questions:
1. I have a library of hundreds of technical Ebooks, however they are all pdf or chm. Is there some way to batch convert them? |
I also read a lot of technical PDF the best solution I've found this far is PDFLRF. The Calibre software has a pdf2lrf converter but it does not handle images or tables, only pure text.
The strength/weakness of PDFLRF is that it turns the PDF to images and enhances them, but also increases the filesize. Calibre keeps it as text.
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2. Where do you get your fiction books?
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Sony Connect their prices is pretty comparable to Amazon.
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3. Do you have to use the Sony eBook Library software, its a heap of dung as software goes?
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Yes and No. If you plan to buy books at Sony CONNECT you have to use their software. Also it does a good job of converting your Word docs into RTF so it does save you a step.
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4. I also have a ton of Word docs that I save to RTF however when I try to open them I get page invalid. How do I fix this?
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I have not seen this so I don't know what the error is. However one note sony RTF does not handle images, so if your word documents have embeded objects or images they do not work on the reader. Personaly I would not convert the Word documents to RTF manually. I would use the Sony Software to do this form me.
If your word documents are complicated (ie think of ascii documents) then I would use a different format to save the documents. Personally I use OpenOffice (OO) /Calibe (aka libprs500) for complicated word documents. With OO I save the document as an HTML file, if there are images I create a zip file with the images and HTML. Import the zip to Calibe and convet it to an LRF.