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Originally Posted by cmdahler
My thanks to Kovid for his hard work, but let's just say it's a disappointing decision to stop fixing bugs in the LRF conversion utility. I'm glad the functionality is still there - there will still be people who vastly prefer LRF over ePub for quite some time to come until Sony gets its thumb out and provides an update to make ePub look like something that wasn't typed up by a high school kid in an afternoon on Word.
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Amen to this. I confess I haven't read this entire thread (which seems to have taken off a bit). The quote above is what I was getting at when I started this thread. Well said, cm.
[Update: caught up on things here a bit]
And to the chastising I got for posting a 'mad' smiley in the original post: I'm sorry but I couldn't find a 'disappointed' smiley here. And I purposely directed my sarcastic 'thanks' at Calibre, and not Kovid personally. I do appreciate the huge amount of underrewarded effort he has put into this whole project. I guess that subtlety/message was lost on many.
In plain English, I am
disappointed (I'm not posting in ePub, am I?) about lack of future support for lrf bugs in Calibre. (I doubt there are many left--lrf is where it started,isn't it?) I refuse to upgrade my 500, because the upgrade is reported to kill the battery life (still 2+ weeks). I still have lots of lrf files that work fine on all 3 Readers, and display nice justified text. I will continue to convert to lrf because ePub does
not display justified text on the Readers (and won't work at all on the 500). Apparently there are a few more subtle text style and header problems with ePub on Readers too. And yes, I know I can convert these ebooks to another format someday, if I want to. (FYI, I'm still running XP on my home computers. I may consider Win7 someday, but XP didn't 'die' when Vista came out and I am glad I never switched to it!)
For those who suggest I fix the bugs myself--I'm not a coder. These days, converting ebook files with various utilities and figuring out end-user-level problems on my commercial business software is all I can deal with these days. (I started out programming Basic and Fortran--Watfor and Watfiv--on punchcards in the 70's, but have evolved into an end-user over the years in response to my particular needs and interests. Sorry.) The suggestion of airing some bugs and hoping that someone else may be motivated to fix them is a good one. Didn't I kinda do that with this thread?