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EricQ · 06-19-2009, 11:43 PM

Hi everyone,

I currently just picked up an e-book reader (Sony PRS-505) and have been browsing the forums recently. It's great to see that there is an active community dedicated to e-readers despite their infancy. A little bit about me though; I'm currently a second year philosophy student who hates carrying around books

. I have a ton of PDFs and some DJVUs here and there on my computer that number in the hundreds. Well, you know how it is, no one can read a 300 page book on a laptop screen for any length of time. Therefore, I decided to get the PRS-505 being the cheapest and having the best utility for the price.

At the moment, I'm working on getting my whole PDF/DJVU library on the device with no text formatting issues. Putting the PDFs straight on the device gives me some broken formatting issues with the text when I zoom. I then tried LRF using an image-based converter which displays the text nicely unzoomed, but then again, I can't zoom in at all. I then tried calibre which is text-based, but it gets rid of the images and diagrams and also has some text formatting issues when I zoom in.

Any tips to get the text and images perfectly (well, almost perfectly) displayed on my PRS-505? I've noticed a lot of good philosophy classics in the e-book library on the site with images and text that formats properly when you zoom in. I just can't seem to replicate that kind of formatting.

06-19-2009, 11:43 PM	#1
EricQ Philosopher Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Liverpool, NY Device: PRS-505	Hello! Hi everyone, I currently just picked up an e-book reader (Sony PRS-505) and have been browsing the forums recently. It's great to see that there is an active community dedicated to e-readers despite their infancy. A little bit about me though; I'm currently a second year philosophy student who hates carrying around books . I have a ton of PDFs and some DJVUs here and there on my computer that number in the hundreds. Well, you know how it is, no one can read a 300 page book on a laptop screen for any length of time. Therefore, I decided to get the PRS-505 being the cheapest and having the best utility for the price. At the moment, I'm working on getting my whole PDF/DJVU library on the device with no text formatting issues. Putting the PDFs straight on the device gives me some broken formatting issues with the text when I zoom. I then tried LRF using an image-based converter which displays the text nicely unzoomed, but then again, I can't zoom in at all. I then tried calibre which is text-based, but it gets rid of the images and diagrams and also has some text formatting issues when I zoom in. Any tips to get the text and images perfectly (well, almost perfectly) displayed on my PRS-505? I've noticed a lot of good philosophy classics in the e-book library on the site with images and text that formats properly when you zoom in. I just can't seem to replicate that kind of formatting.