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Old 11-16-2009, 11:11 AM   #32
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I picked up a couple of ebooks for my Opus the other day. When I tried to load them up, I found I'd made the dumbest of all newbie errors, and that the books were in fact PDF, not ePub. Ouch. I succeeded in "liberating" the first book, and then with a combination of Acrobat Pro, Calibre, Sigil and plain old Vim, I succeeded in turning it into a passible ePub. No luck with the second book, unfortunately.
Here's my experience-- I load a PDF on my Sony Reader. I read the PDF on my Sony Reader.

No more steps.

So far, I have yet to find a "buyable" EPUB that I haven't hated-- they have all been formatted with the smallest font still too large, lines too widely spaced, and thus too few words per page. The only EPUB I've actually bothered reading was one from Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18891

For everything else, I've read TXT or RTF or PDF files. What I'd like to see is offical EPUBs not formatted like they are a primer for a 5-year-old.
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