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Originally Posted by JSWolf
.pdb is eReader format and yes, it's possible to have bold and italic. The last eReader book I got was a free Star Trek eBook and I did convert it with Calibre to read and it did have bold for the chapter titles and italics within the book.
To be honest, the only formats that are still alive are ePub, Mobi, KF8, KFX, PDF, kepub, and FB2. The rest are dead or will soon be.
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Pdb was the Palm extension for data files and there was no format specified. They could contain data in any form whatever, including plain text or text in a markup language or compressed text or even images. There were only 2 extensions possible on Palms, .pdb and .prc. The first, .pdb, was intended for data and .prc was intended for executables but as I recall neither was enforced and they were interchangeable. And I think either could contain anything.
So yes, you can have formatting in pdb files. I think you're right that books from ereader.com did have some formatting. Most of the early Palm ebooks were simply plain text that had been compressed and put into a pdb file.
Barry