Hi there
I've just recently been given a PRS-505 as a gift and, finding the Sony software as I've found most other Sony software (i.e. almost as if it came from a completely different company) I went searching elsewhere. I'm a regular at a forum for music collection & cataloging software (
http://www.fnprg.com/forum) so I asked the neighbouring book collection group for advice and they pointed towards Calibre and this forum. So far so good.
Except I've clearly not grasped some really fundamental aspects of using Calibre. I can edit an original RTF file and just do a copy to the PRS-505 'drive letter'. This seems to work. Obviously there are issues about page widths, justification etc. Expecting a major improvement I attempted a conversion of the same file to LRF in Calibre. This produced some weird effects when I view it in Calibre. Most significant of these are -
- Italics get ignored
- Line feeds get ignored
- Hard page breaks are ignored
- Paragraph marks are observed unless there are multiple consecutive ones. Then only one is observed.
So I'm not necessarily looking for the answers to these right here (don't give me a fish), but surely somewhere there is a comprehensive set of rules which both Calibre and I should obey. Where do I find these? (teach me to fish).
And if I were to be a real heretic, can someone define the purpose and benefit of Calibre? Have the missed the point somewhere?
Apologies for the naive level of these questions. I've never been an e-book reader before (I've got a few thousand hard copies) and I'm getting nowhere fast. I have searched for days trying to teach myself without success. I suspect a signpost is all I need.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Ken