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garbanzo · 02-01-2010, 02:58 AM

Greetings!

In about 6 weeks I'll be in the US, where I intend to pick up a PRS-600. In the meantime, I want to prepare my current collection.

I have a few hundred ebooks right now, all in TXT format. They are optimized for use on my PSP (ugh).

What I am interested in learning is how well the PRS-600 works with plain text, and whether or not I should consider converting to epub.

I don't care about TOC, images, fancy title pages, or any of the extended features that the epub format offers. I just want the words.

But I am particularly concerned about character encoding issues (especially quotation marks, dashes, non-Latin, etc) and formatting issues (line breaks, justification, etc), since these are the problems I experienced when formatting TXT for use on my PSP.

So the question is - keep in TXT or convert to epub?

Thanks!

(Also - how do Google's epub books look on the PRS-600? Do they work well 'out of the box' without additional tweaking?)

02-01-2010, 02:58 AM	#1
garbanzo bean Posts: 82 Karma: 338 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: Boox Nova 2	Buying a Sony, want to prepare Greetings! In about 6 weeks I'll be in the US, where I intend to pick up a PRS-600. In the meantime, I want to prepare my current collection. I have a few hundred ebooks right now, all in TXT format. They are optimized for use on my PSP (ugh). What I am interested in learning is how well the PRS-600 works with plain text, and whether or not I should consider converting to epub. I don't care about TOC, images, fancy title pages, or any of the extended features that the epub format offers. I just want the words. But I am particularly concerned about character encoding issues (especially quotation marks, dashes, non-Latin, etc) and formatting issues (line breaks, justification, etc), since these are the problems I experienced when formatting TXT for use on my PSP. So the question is - keep in TXT or convert to epub? Thanks! (Also - how do Google's epub books look on the PRS-600? Do they work well 'out of the box' without additional tweaking?)