[garbanzo]

first impressions: i'm impressed!

got my new reader a few days ago on a trip to the US. been playing with different formats (epub, LRF), and so far, i like RTF the best.

RTF is slow on first read. the reader just sits and spins for up to a minute while formatting the book. same happens with font size changes. but after the book has been formatted once in each font size, the reader seems to remember what to do, and the book is fast to reload.

i formatted the RTF i'm currently reading in Word, but copy/pasted into WordPad and saved from there to keep the filesize smaller (526kb vs 883kb). i put page breaks before each chapter, and used a large blue font for chapter headings. page breaks show up perfectly on the reader, and the chapter headings are a nice shade of gray. bold and italic all work very well. had zero formatting issues with quotes, dashes, and other characters, which i was very happy about.

RTF font is 11pt Calibri, but shows up as serif on the reader. 11pt is a bit small - i have to set it to Large to read it. might do some experimenting with font size to keep from having to switch sizes when loading a book for the first time.

so far, aside from the slow initial loading time, i don't see any problems with RTF. i don't care about images or TOC - i only intend to read novels, and i read one at a time from start to finish. RTF files are easy to format and can be viewed/edited on just about any computer.

will post more as i experiment more...