[HarryT]

Originally Posted by pitolee

My questions are:

1. Do LRFs with standard fonts flip pages faster than RTFs?

I don't believe so. The "page turning speed" is determined by the physical characteristics of the eInk screen. It takes about 2 seconds to turn a page, no matter what.

2. Other than file size, what are the downsides of importing and reading RTF or TXT files into the reader?

Text has huge disadvantages. It generally has a hard line break at the end of each line, which looks unpleasant in the Reader, and (for me at least) the font size which the Reader uses for text files is way too small.

RTF files are a LOT better. Their main disadvantages are:

1. The Reader won't display pictures in an RTF file.
2. You don't get a table of contents.
3. They tend to be much larger than the LRF equivalent.

Are there suggestions on pre-processing an RTF file in WORD or other word processor to make the conversion into BD smoother and faster?

Thanks!

I don't have any particular suggestions - the editing facilities of BD are fine for my needs. What I do personally is read anything I know I'm only going to read once as an RTF. Stuff that I want to keep in my permanent library I go through the LRF conversion process using BD. A nicely formatted RTF (eg one of Baen's books) I can convert into a reasonable LRF using BD in 5 minutes. Doing a full format of a PG text file (as I describe in detail in my "Tutorial" in the "Book Uploads" forum section) takes me probably 1-2 hours.