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superglide · 12-17-2008, 09:12 PM

Thanks Kovid, epub support in calibre being less mature than lit support is the sort of info I was looking for.

I have been reading an epub book on my PRS-505 for hours. The book was converted from ereader to html and from html to epub using calibre 0.4.114 and it seems to be working much better than the previous version of calibre. No more reader resets, so the fix in the changelog seems to be working, even though the log says the fix is for downloaded news.

I also saw in another thread that lit is preferred to mobi because lit uses html 4 + css whereas mobi is html 3.2 plus some custom markup. So, points for lit, but I still don't want lit except as a last resort for books that might be available only in that format.

As a long time palm user, I know that prc is a generic format (palm resource code) and can contain almost anything. It commonly contains Palm text documents which I'm assuming is what calibre is expecting since prc is on the list of extensions when adding books.

12-17-2008, 09:12 PM	#8
superglide Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Massachusetts Device: PRS-505	Thanks Kovid, epub support in calibre being less mature than lit support is the sort of info I was looking for. I have been reading an epub book on my PRS-505 for hours. The book was converted from ereader to html and from html to epub using calibre 0.4.114 and it seems to be working much better than the previous version of calibre. No more reader resets, so the fix in the changelog seems to be working, even though the log says the fix is for downloaded news. I also saw in another thread that lit is preferred to mobi because lit uses html 4 + css whereas mobi is html 3.2 plus some custom markup. So, points for lit, but I still don't want lit except as a last resort for books that might be available only in that format. As a long time palm user, I know that prc is a generic format (palm resource code) and can contain almost anything. It commonly contains Palm text documents which I'm assuming is what calibre is expecting since prc is on the list of extensions when adding books.