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Originally Posted by sealbeater
What do you mean, plain txt is hit or miss? That's the format of choice for me. With rtf running a distant second. I do dump .html files to .txt mostly.
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The PRS doesn't cope well with text documents that are formatted with hard line breaks -- and that's nearly all of them, so far as I can see. Unless, as you say, you have stripped the text out of some other format. Most of the Gutenberg texts, for example, are formatted for a fixed-width font display of 70-80 columns. Unless you actually install fixed-width fonts of the appropriate size on the reader (which I guess is possible), then you end up with all the line breaks in stupid places:
``It was the best of times, it
was
the worst of times. it was
the age
of foolishness, it was
the age of
wisdom''
Sometimes you can get a decent rendering by fiddling around with the font size, but very often not.
It's not unreadable, of course; but it's not (to me) a very pleasant reading experience.
If you're converting from HTML or something with a specific paragraph divider, then all you have to is strip all the line breaks and put in a line break wherever there is a line-breaking or para-breaking tag -- that's easy enough.
But my point is that, unless you already have a large collection that is already in a format that the reader can read well, you're going to have to do some sort of conversion.
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Please believe me when I say that I have no problem navigating my collection. Anyone who says otherwise, I challenge them to say that they've done it and had a problem. Anything else is just fear mongering.
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I don't disbelieve you -- but I do think that if you find the PRS navigation adequate with a very large collection, you're in the minority, and most likely a minority of one.
The first thing I did when I got me PRS500, three years or so ago, was dump a thousand or so plain-text ebooks on a memory card. Even if I was prepared to wait for 15 minutes for it to start up, I did find it very slow to navigate. From my reading of this forum, I would guess that my experience is typical, and yours is perhaps atypical.
Not that that's important, of course -- if it would help you to be able to stick 6000 books on a memory stick, then I'm certainly not going to say you shouldn't ask for such a feature.