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igelfeld · 02-21-2010, 04:14 AM

I am totally new to the world of e-readers and just bought an Astak EZReader 6" at Fry's.

One of the reasons why I chose Astak was its out of the box support for Russian (among other languages). So I immediately tried to load some Russian books to see what the experience of reading them would be like.

I have immediately run into some problems and I hope that they are a user error and not fundamental issues with the device.

Some of the books were in TXT format and once I switched to Russian in Settings menu I could view them just fine. Some were in MS Word DOC format and while I could view them the font was too small. I tried zooming but was not satisfied with the reflow and tried to increase font size in MS Word and resaving the file. I had also converted it to RTF and TXT seeing that EZReader handled RTF and TXT better. Both converted files could not be viewed on EZReader. I got garbage onscreen. Just simple Save As RTF or TXT would guarantee that the file will be unreadable on the device.

I also had some books in EPUB format that were intended to be used with Stanza on iPhone. I could view them just fine in Calibre but on EZReader all text was showing up as question marks. Navigating from page to page would crash the reader almost right away requiring a complete reboot.

I also had a big (several MBs) book in RTF and it would crash the reader as well after a few pages.

All in all, I am not quite a happy camper I am afraid.

Could anyone offer any suggestions on how to deal with these issues, preferably someone who reads a lot of Russian and already figured all these issues out?

02-21-2010, 04:14 AM	#1
igelfeld Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: Astak EZReader	Need help with Russian support on EZReader 6" I am totally new to the world of e-readers and just bought an Astak EZReader 6" at Fry's. One of the reasons why I chose Astak was its out of the box support for Russian (among other languages). So I immediately tried to load some Russian books to see what the experience of reading them would be like. I have immediately run into some problems and I hope that they are a user error and not fundamental issues with the device. Some of the books were in TXT format and once I switched to Russian in Settings menu I could view them just fine. Some were in MS Word DOC format and while I could view them the font was too small. I tried zooming but was not satisfied with the reflow and tried to increase font size in MS Word and resaving the file. I had also converted it to RTF and TXT seeing that EZReader handled RTF and TXT better. Both converted files could not be viewed on EZReader. I got garbage onscreen. Just simple Save As RTF or TXT would guarantee that the file will be unreadable on the device. I also had some books in EPUB format that were intended to be used with Stanza on iPhone. I could view them just fine in Calibre but on EZReader all text was showing up as question marks. Navigating from page to page would crash the reader almost right away requiring a complete reboot. I also had a big (several MBs) book in RTF and it would crash the reader as well after a few pages. All in all, I am not quite a happy camper I am afraid. Could anyone offer any suggestions on how to deal with these issues, preferably someone who reads a lot of Russian and already figured all these issues out?