[Teyrnon]

Originally Posted by Ron46

Thanks. These were the answers I sort of expected. I just wanted to be certain about the firmware update process- that there was not a launching application that required Windows, since Linux is not listed by Ectaco as a compatible OS.

It's an understandable concern and well to ask. I would note though that the majority of devices that only mention working with Windows usually work just fine with Linux. For whatever reason the marketeer at Ectaco only thought it important to mention Macintosh and Windows, for whatever reason.

Originally Posted by Ron46

Margins are somewhat of a personal thing. I don't like the looks of text that runs right to the edge of the screen. Imagine what printed books would look like if someone in Gutenberg's time had rightly pointed out that margins wasted paper. I've read thousands of pages on a Palm III XE and set narrow margins (even on this tiny

Ah, I see what you mean. To me margins are very useful in paperbooks but on the jetBook. The frame formed by the case serves as margin enough for my purposes.

Originally Posted by Ron46

between sentences; remove distracting underscores that they use to bracket itallics text etc. It takes about 5 seconds to reformat an entire 400 (printed) page book and does not require exhaustive hand formatting.

You could probably do what I had in mind with macros. Pretty much I was thinking you'd have to preformat the text by hand adding in space at the beginning and end of a line. It'd only work for a specific text size and is not an optimal solution. Someone else might have a better idea or know how to coax margins out of the jetBook.

Originally Posted by Ron46

I read somewhere that if you use RTF on a Jetbook, the unit displays a 1.5 or double space between lines even if the original file is single spaced. Do you know if this is still the case when you are wrapping text and only using returns between paragraphs?

I've read that too but I just compared spacing between a text file and an rtf file. The line spacing looks the same. I think the problem existed in earlier firmware versions but has since been fixed.