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Old 01-01-2010, 06:31 AM   #4
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I don't have a PocketBook, but the usual reasons for FBReader not being able to display an ebook are a) wrong font, or b) wrong encoding. If you have selected the font inside FBReader (as poshm described) then what is left is the encoding. I'm not sure if the PocketBook allows manual changes to the encoding. This is possible using Desktop FBReader (Windows or Linux), where it is under the i-BOOK icon (the font is under the gear wheel icon). So it may be worth seeing if Desktop FBReader has the same problem.

MOBI ebooks do have an explicit encoding specified in their metadata, but FBReader does not use this (so it may be using cp-1252 by default). I'm not sure if this is a lack of attention to the MOBI format within FBReader or because the encoding is often wrong (and it is quite often wrong in MOBIs). The latest FBReader does use the encoding specified in an ePub, so converting to ePub using Calibre might fix your problem.
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