[hobbyman]

Hi, I just bought a Sony 505, my main reason for buying it was to be able to read Project Guttenberg books and text versions of manuals etc, but the included Sony software is terminaly dire, so I installed Calibre on Ubuntu Hardy which is fully patched and up to date.

my problem is with the formating of text files (their layout that is), for example, I converted Dombey and son to LRF and loaded it into the reader, and on the screen with middle sized text the layout is

line of text yada yada .....................
last three words of previous line
line of text yada yada .....................
last three words of previous line
line of text yada yada .....................
last three words of previous line

totally hopeless for reading .txt books off Gutenberg or other text files (this is at middle font size btw), is their some way I am missing that will reformat the text to read "correctly", as far as I can see you just need to remove all hard coded line breaks, then insert a break after every full stop, and before and after each pair of quotes to reformat the text into a readable form (the reader will take care of the word wrapping? yes?)

hobbyman

PS I have tried that Java tool by ninja_bob but it still leaves sections formatted incorrectly