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Originally Posted by MikeKing
I am college student @ Uo Arizona and many of my books are Adobe PDF formatted. Are these files easy to convert? (My major is computer science/mathematics, so I wouldn't mind having to write code to convert files).
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:-) And some of us code for a living, but PDF conversions aren't that simple.
There are a few ways to convert/read PDFs, but they all have different drawbacks.
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Originally Posted by MikeKing
Is there a universal format most readers will be able to read without problem and displays correctly?
And the real question... Is this worth my time and money? I would love not to have to carry around huge text books all day.. but if this isn't a practical solution, someone stop me now.
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The 'universal' format would be text with 7-bit Ascii, but most devices will handle things such as some level of HTML or RTF, however...
For your basic requirement, at the moment and until larger screens are a commercial reality (e.g. Plastic Logic?), I'd think that your best bet would be to look at a tablet/laptop/notebook/sub-notebook based solution - Asus Eee PC 900, if you can live with the short battery life, maybe?