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Originally Posted by vickivanv
Hi, y'all! *waves* I help Laurie King with her online outreach, and we had several emails pointing to this thread. I hope y'all don't mind my peeping in. This is a terrific community!
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I am very happy that you came, and you want to listen.
One of those emails was from myself ;-)
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Originally Posted by vickivanv
I've made notes of all the comments and concerns here and those that have come through email. One thing I want to make sure I have straight are the formatting issues. My email feedback suggests that straight html and mobi formats are currently the friendliest formats for the most devices. Would y'all agree? Is one better than the other, if you had to pick? I'm hearing that PDFs are very unworkable for many of your devices--and that preprint PDFs cause additional difficulties for some because of the printers' marks on the pages. Is that right? Y'all let me know if I'm missing anything.
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THE best solution would be asking us to help you to convert the book to formats perfect for individual devices.
Straight html (not the abomination produced by MS Word) is the best input for various conversion tools. Very few devices can read html directly.
Also rtf file, preferably with absolute minimum of formatting, is also great.
Some authors and/or publishers are afraid somebody would come and copy/paste text from un-encrypted source such as txt file or html file. That means they will insist on pdf file.
pdf files can be read on most of e-ink devices.
BUT!
You have to format pdf file for 6 inch screen.
Just create pdf file with page size 90x115 mm, with relatively small margins and font that is well readable when you print it out (as a test) on paper in 1:1 scale.