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Originally Posted by hidari
I am an avid user of Caibre for both my 505 and my Cybookgen3 (FW 2.0). I usually read most of my books in epub and a minority in PDF. Yet, I find one in every 30 or so that will not pass mustard with calibre or any other converter that I have. Thus, I ocassionally read a novel in .txt and find it to be adequate enough at least for novels.
Does anyone else read in .txt , sometimes?
N.B. I am not a Bookdesigner user nor do I spend hours trying to convert one book.
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I have no problem with TXT files, to me it's the content that matters. If at all available, a version with some formatting is nice (and Gutenberg has added some nice options) - my preferences are for RTF and HTML which allow basic formatting and are easily edited, say in Word. Love that Search-and-Replace! I remove the Acknowledgements, Table of Contents, any extra blurb like "other books by" and "reviews", extra blank lines and split long paragraphs like eGeezer, to make my reading experience better - after all, it's just for ME, not anyone else. I am usually reading on my jetBook Lite (5" screen) so these simple formats look great. For anything more complicated, say PDFs with lots of pictures, I read those on my big computer screen (21") to save my poor old eyes extra strain.
As they say -- "to each his own". I believe that these lovely gizmos and content that we buy (or obtain in the public domain) are for us to personalize FOR OUR OWN USE as we wish.