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Originally Posted by markiehill
to get people to transition we need to understand that this is an imperfect world and that the reader will have to deal with many formats (some crap) and render them as best it can.
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Then you've just significantly increased the cost of the reader - both in development costs and license costs. Remember that many proprietary formats are also patented and the licenses may (probably will) cost.
This also adds to the Tower of eBabel issue instead of solving it. Plus it increases the odds that the format you bought your eBooks in will not exist in the future.
The best thing is to pick a few open formats and make it work with those.
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Originally Posted by markiehill
I mean if we had good working text support , that lets you choose a couple of basic fonts and bookmarked your position and formatted well... that would be a good thing for now, most formats can be converted to text.
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And to HTML as well. And, unlike text, HTML preserves most formatting. HTML is a much better format to standardize on.
The only thing that the iLiad doesn't do is bookmarks for HTML files. That is because eInk is a page-oriented technology and, so, they made the iLiad page-oriented. HTML is layout-oriented, so it's much harder to remember what "page" you were on with HTML. And why PDF works so well on the iLiad.
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Originally Posted by markiehill
i will hold my hands up and say that i have not tried txt since the original firmware version, so if you fire right back and tell me thats all present now and working i will have to go and check it out.
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I haven't looked at text format since the start either. I have no interest in that format on the iLiad.
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Originally Posted by markiehill
I agree that if you take the time to format a PDF file for the device it looks really impressive, but i aint got time for this ... i need it to happen at the press of a button.
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3 clicks in OpenOffice to access the page layout dialog.
A few more to adjust the page size to 6.5x5.5".
Save.
Export to PDF.
A little more than the press of a button, but easy nonetheless.
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Originally Posted by markiehill
Ohh and we really need search in PDF files.
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Another thing we agree on.