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RWood · 07-30-2007, 04:53 PM

Welcome to MobileRead.

IMHO the best format for the Sony Reader is LRF. The two best tools to create LRF files are BookDesigner and libprs500. Both are available from links in the MobileRead Wiki Conversion page.

While RTF and TXT can be read by the Reader, they cannot display graphics. PDF is an interesting case. Some love it, some hate it. While designed as a print medium, it does not allow the fonts to change size on the Reader and the best PDFs are those designed for the Reader and not something formatted for letter or A4 paper.

Graphics are somewhat a hard case. There are mysteries of the LRF format that have yet to be cracked and implemented in the tools. Among them is drop caps and inline images. As it is now graphics are set between paragraphs . If there is enough room on the current page they are displayed, if not, they start their own page. You can force a page break before a graphic but that is about it that I know of. Only in a PDF could you get text next to a graphic.

Reducing the images to 4 shade b+w is performed in the Reader if it is a color image and there is a switch in BookDesigner that will convert color to b+w for you. The b+w files are slightly smaller than the full color ones.

I hope this helps.

07-30-2007, 04:53 PM	#2
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Welcome to MobileRead. IMHO the best format for the Sony Reader is LRF. The two best tools to create LRF files are BookDesigner and libprs500. Both are available from links in the MobileRead Wiki Conversion page. While RTF and TXT can be read by the Reader, they cannot display graphics. PDF is an interesting case. Some love it, some hate it. While designed as a print medium, it does not allow the fonts to change size on the Reader and the best PDFs are those designed for the Reader and not something formatted for letter or A4 paper. Graphics are somewhat a hard case. There are mysteries of the LRF format that have yet to be cracked and implemented in the tools. Among them is drop caps and inline images. As it is now graphics are set between paragraphs . If there is enough room on the current page they are displayed, if not, they start their own page. You can force a page break before a graphic but that is about it that I know of. Only in a PDF could you get text next to a graphic. Reducing the images to 4 shade b+w is performed in the Reader if it is a color image and there is a switch in BookDesigner that will convert color to b+w for you. The b+w files are slightly smaller than the full color ones. I hope this helps.