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Greg G · 03-02-2009, 10:10 PM

I am trying to decide if I should stop formatting my books as LRFs and switch to reading ePubs now that Calibre is doing such a great job of handling multi formats. I like that I can convert ePub to anything else while LRF seems to be a dead end format (can't convert it). Right now I create both an ePub and a LRF and read the LRF.

I tried an ePub version and it seemed to really lag on the 505 though I tried again later and it seemed ok. I do find myself not liking the fixed page count on ePub. If there are 200 pages then 3 page turns might take you from page 1 to page 2. If you increase the font size then there are still 200 pages but it could take 5 page turns to get to the next page. I guess I just got used to the way LRFs are handled.

What do you guys think?

-Greg

03-02-2009, 10:10 PM	#1
Greg G Groupie Posts: 181 Karma: 66 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: NJ Device: Kindle Papwerwhite	ePub or LRF for reading? I am trying to decide if I should stop formatting my books as LRFs and switch to reading ePubs now that Calibre is doing such a great job of handling multi formats. I like that I can convert ePub to anything else while LRF seems to be a dead end format (can't convert it). Right now I create both an ePub and a LRF and read the LRF. I tried an ePub version and it seemed to really lag on the 505 though I tried again later and it seemed ok. I do find myself not liking the fixed page count on ePub. If there are 200 pages then 3 page turns might take you from page 1 to page 2. If you increase the font size then there are still 200 pages but it could take 5 page turns to get to the next page. I guess I just got used to the way LRFs are handled. What do you guys think? -Greg