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Old 01-12-2009, 12:46 AM   #6
mbagsh55
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Location: Kanagawa, Japan
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Originally Posted by igorsk View Post
Actually, there are plenty of current Japanese ebooks available (and a lot of e-manga), but they mostly use formats which are currently not convertible.

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And of course, the Japanese counterpart to Project Gutenberg is Aozora Bunko: http://www.aozora.gr.jp/
Entirely correct. I gave up trying to find a means of converting XMDF books from my Sharp Zaurus a couple of years ago, so do not find any of the currently available formats usable (on a Sony Reader).

I have converted some Aozora Bunko to PDF, using BlueSkyReader (Macintosh based) to produce vertical text with furigana which displays well, but is limited to the out-of-copyright text available. I don't know if it is possible to do the same with ADE books, but I could not find a way of getting LRF to support vertical text and furigana, so did not bother with changing the reader fonts.

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Marcus
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