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Old 06-27-2008, 01:53 PM   #9
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Location: White Plains, NY, USA
Device: Nook Color, Itouch, Nokia770, Sony 650, Sony 700(dead), Ebk(given)
I read several books as jpg's albums on my 770, though I actually embedded them in a html file to use Fbreader and the customization keys; reading them as albums with the 770 photo viewer also worked, but was a bit more cumbersome since I needed to use the pen for navigation rather than buttons only.

Once you set up a system, it's easy to press some buttons and let the computer do the work. You need pictures perfect for your device - so for 770 this meant 800x480 with just the right amount of text to be nicely readable. Sometimes this meant cutting a scan page in 2, sometimes not, you experiment. If you start from text not scan, it's even easier since you can change the font to big enough, bold format and all the tricks you use to see pdf's on Sony. Then you do page to jpg and that's that.

To batch crop, resize, rotate I use xnview which is fast and free for pc's
For batch renaming I use rename master again fast and free.

To do text to image for example if you have pdf's manipulator software, you can do text-pdf-tiff-jpg, but I guess there are other ways to go directly txt-jpg. I always started from scan images or scan pdf's since after all if it's text Fbreader can handle it directly...
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