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kacir · 06-26-2007, 06:42 AM

I use my reader to read books. Period.

1. I Find a book in txt, html, rtf or any other freely convertible formats from a number of legitimate (free as speach, free as beer, or paid) sources and a few questionable ones.

2. I "format" the book. That means: Load it into OpenOffice.org, change font to sans-serif one (like Helvetica or Arial) change font size to 16, change page margins to 0.01, change space between paragpaphs to slightly larger than default, change the first line indent, save as rtf. The resulting file is a mess (contains excesive amount of various unnecessary formating tags) but I do not care as long as the Reader can display the file the way I like it. It takes the Reader a minute or two to open the book. So what? I will spend many, many hours reading that book.

3. I Read the book. One (or perhaps two) at the time.

That is it.
It is a Reader. For reading BOOKS.

06-26-2007, 06:42 AM	#4
kacir Wizard Posts: 3,463 Karma: 10684861 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20	I use my reader to read books. Period. 1. I Find a book in txt, html, rtf or any other freely convertible formats from a number of legitimate (free as speach, free as beer, or paid) sources and a few questionable ones. 2. I "format" the book. That means: Load it into OpenOffice.org, change font to sans-serif one (like Helvetica or Arial) change font size to 16, change page margins to 0.01, change space between paragpaphs to slightly larger than default, change the first line indent, save as rtf. The resulting file is a mess (contains excesive amount of various unnecessary formating tags) but I do not care as long as the Reader can display the file the way I like it. It takes the Reader a minute or two to open the book. So what? I will spend many, many hours reading that book. 3. I Read the book. One (or perhaps two) at the time. That is it. It is a Reader. For reading BOOKS.