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aagstn · 05-02-2010, 02:38 PM

I've gotten kind of weird results opening books on the SD card with the Jetbook Lite. eReader DRM format so far is my favorite. Books (even large ones like the Maltin Movie Guide and complete Lord of the Rings) open quickly. You can start reading while the Jetbook does the page count and formats everything ahead of you. The text also looks the best by far with the eReader stuff and doesn't have the wide line spacing ePubs do.

ePub on the other hand is very strange. Most books open fairly quickly while other books take a minute or longer to open. One I have that takes forever to open is Kenneth Davis' Don't Know Much About Anything. It was a book I bought in Mobipocket DRM. I removed the DRM, but the JBL would still not open it. Said something about incompatible compression. I used Calibre to convert it to ePub and the formatting is exactly the same, but it takes the JBL ages to open. The reason might be the formatting. The book is broken down into tons of really small sections that all have page breaks. Almost like a book with hundreds of chapters. I'm assuming this is what is taking so long to load.
However, with eReader books the JBL remembers the formatting the next time you open the book and its very fast with the full page count. It seems with ePub the JBL has to do this formatting every time the book is opened and doesn't remember it when the book is closed. However, most of my books with only a few dozen chapters open quickly in ePub so this isn't a deal breaker. I just wish there was some way to get rid of the wide line spacing. I tried recreating the docs in Calibre, but they turn out the same.

The vast majority of my books are in eReader format though so it seems I have picked an ideal reader for my needs. These are really the only issues I have had. I sort everything on my SD card in folders by Author and it is quick and easy to navigate the 50 or so books I have on right now. I love the screen. I spent some time with a friends Nook and I think the JBL is just as good of a reading experience and I'm one of those people really bugged by the screen flash when turning pages and the overall slow and sluggish nature of the Nook. The JBL is vastly superior for my needs.

The only thing I need to do now is buy a case for it (guess there is just the one leather option) and finishing putting the rest of my books on it. Seems to be a top notch reader for $99. I don't think I would be any happier with a Nook.

05-02-2010, 02:38 PM	#5
aagstn Evangelist Posts: 422 Karma: 1004351 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: Kindle Paperwhite 3, iPad mini 2	I've gotten kind of weird results opening books on the SD card with the Jetbook Lite. eReader DRM format so far is my favorite. Books (even large ones like the Maltin Movie Guide and complete Lord of the Rings) open quickly. You can start reading while the Jetbook does the page count and formats everything ahead of you. The text also looks the best by far with the eReader stuff and doesn't have the wide line spacing ePubs do. ePub on the other hand is very strange. Most books open fairly quickly while other books take a minute or longer to open. One I have that takes forever to open is Kenneth Davis' Don't Know Much About Anything. It was a book I bought in Mobipocket DRM. I removed the DRM, but the JBL would still not open it. Said something about incompatible compression. I used Calibre to convert it to ePub and the formatting is exactly the same, but it takes the JBL ages to open. The reason might be the formatting. The book is broken down into tons of really small sections that all have page breaks. Almost like a book with hundreds of chapters. I'm assuming this is what is taking so long to load. However, with eReader books the JBL remembers the formatting the next time you open the book and its very fast with the full page count. It seems with ePub the JBL has to do this formatting every time the book is opened and doesn't remember it when the book is closed. However, most of my books with only a few dozen chapters open quickly in ePub so this isn't a deal breaker. I just wish there was some way to get rid of the wide line spacing. I tried recreating the docs in Calibre, but they turn out the same. The vast majority of my books are in eReader format though so it seems I have picked an ideal reader for my needs. These are really the only issues I have had. I sort everything on my SD card in folders by Author and it is quick and easy to navigate the 50 or so books I have on right now. I love the screen. I spent some time with a friends Nook and I think the JBL is just as good of a reading experience and I'm one of those people really bugged by the screen flash when turning pages and the overall slow and sluggish nature of the Nook. The JBL is vastly superior for my needs. The only thing I need to do now is buy a case for it (guess there is just the one leather option) and finishing putting the rest of my books on it. Seems to be a top notch reader for $99. I don't think I would be any happier with a Nook.