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Originally Posted by oncdoc
its soo confusing, with the new firmware is the program in there? do i have to start it somewhere?
or do i simply rename files to end with fb2? can i do this pdf too?
soo weird.. what is this coolreader stuff?
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It depends on which firmware you are using. As far as I know, the previous version of CoolReader only opened FB2 files (December firmware).
CoolReader also exists as Desktop software. Both versions 2 and 3 are currently available.
With the aborted/abandoned, but by some of us, embraced, March firmware, CoolReader natively opens FB2, TXT, RTF, and HTML files. (In other words, you don't have to "fool" it by changing the extension for these files. I haven't tried appending .epub at the end of a TXT or HTML file to see if this would "trick" ADE to open them.
ADE (Adobe Digital Editions) still opens PDFs and EPUBs. However, you can employ a "hack" by renaming EPUBs with an .fb2 extension, and force CoolReader to open them. It can do this because the latest version has been upgraded to decode them--unlike the previous version. As the PocketPro doesn't provide a setting to choose between ADE and CoolReader to open EPUBs, this hack is necessary.
CoolReader
cannot decode PDF, CHM, LIT, MOBI, PDB, PRC, or DOC files, period. (Although it did open what I thought was a DOC, but which turned out to be an RTF with a .DOC extension.) It doesn't matter whether you stick an ".fb2" at the end of these file types.
I'm not sure if there is a third rendering "engine" on the Pocket Pro that opens the formats that CoolReader and ADE cannot decode. My understanding is that ADE only opens PDFs and EPUBs. If true, then "something else" must be opening LIT, CHM, MOBI, PRC, PDB, WOL, DJVU, etc. I suspect others here much more knowledgeable than I about the Hanlin family of readers will have the answer to this question.