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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
There's an available option right now: a set of noise-cancelling headphones, a compatible audio player, and a natural-sounds CD. While my audio player setup isn't noise cancelling, I often use my audio player while reading ebooks to mask out the sounds I don't want to hear like loud conversations at restaurants and nearby people having loud conversations on their cell phones.
In addition to the other comments about ebook formats, I'd like to see ereaders support a format that will allow users to easily generate their own ebooks. I think the already-mentioned RTF could fulfill this function if ebook readers featured RTF reader software that accurately renders the text.
I initially used RTF when making ebook for my Sony reader but I ran into the problem of the text not displaying as intended. I wasn't concerned with it displaying a specific typeface (such as Times New Roman) but that it would display a serif typeface in the ebook as a serif typeface on my ereader. I had the same issue with san serif and monospace typefaces.
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Originally Posted by crossi
Have you tried using calibre to convert your rtf into mobi or epub?
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I hadn't tried it because Calibre I wasn't aware of it when I got my first Sony e-reader (a PRS-500). Plus, as far as I knew at the time Sony e-readers didn't support either mobi or epub (epub support was added later).
For me, one of the strong points in favor of the Sony ereaders is that they could display RTF files without the need for conversion, especially since I can easily create them. Except for the font issue, they did a good job of displaying RTF files.