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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Soon, well I've been saying soon for several months now, I plan on cutting apart any p-books that I want to keep and magically transforming them. Slayda helped me figure out how to cut them into pieces and slice off the page headers and footers, and then OCR them and reformat them nicely. I figure on keeping them in PDF and MS Word formats until the next great thing comes along.
I simply can't stand to read even a paper magazine anymore. They are heavy, clumsy, etc. This sweet little EB1150 has truly brought sunshine into my life.
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I would like to recommend not to use .pdf or .doc formats. It is evil
. Pdf is hard to transform to other size of paper, or with other words, pdf is tightly connected to its paper size: a pdf file created as A4 paper is hard to read on any smaller screen and respectively. It is not just the problem of the software, it is the problem of the format.
And MS Word format? First, not everyone have ms office, not every book reader can read this closed proprietary format, and secondly, it was designed to create documents, not to share them. Last, but not least, did you tried to open older .doc documents in newer version of Word? And do you know that MS will switch to totaly new format, totaly different from todays .doc?
I would recomend simple txt (preferably with UTF8 encoding). In the case you need more, such as emphasis, chapters etc. you can use html - almost everything can now read hypertext markup language (even cell phones!). Also ebooks formats, such as pdb and mobi files are sufficient. maybe .epub format sounds good. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epub#IDPF
You invested much time in scaning and formating, so you shouldn't spoil your work by choosing stupid format.