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krjrs · 05-22-2010, 06:24 AM

@jackie_w - thanks for explanation, you clarified a few small things for me.

I have my pocket since few days, so all this stuff is new for me (I'm under win-XP, and Windows user in general - since the beginning of windows platform, from 3.1 and 95; linux is foreign for me).

I have a lot of my own books (scanned & OCR'ed), and to convert them into "yet another format" is not something that I like. most what I have - is in html, doc/rtf (ready to convert to html), djvu and pdf. nothing in exotic formats like fb2 or epub, because long long time ago, when I started to create my library - I decided that these strange formats are somehow useless (because of lack of many formatting features).

E-ink itself is great. prices, marketing behind, technology progress (I observe it since years), software development, custom software capabilities - not. I feel like going back into a stone age; in XXI century!

Calibre - starts on my computer (2.4GHz/2GB RAM), but when tried to convert something, after 5 minutes of intense HDD work (on an average doc file) without any results - I resigned (HDD killer?). I have other jobs to do; addicting to the "book converting process" is not one of them. I tried also something for automatic conversion, but lost necessary formatting, so this topic just waits for more detailed view.

all I can say now is... "GRRRRRR...!!!!" :-D
If I would know, I would probably buy viliv s5 umpc with ssd.

05-22-2010, 06:24 AM	#7
krjrs Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: pocketbook 360	@jackie_w - thanks for explanation, you clarified a few small things for me. I have my pocket since few days, so all this stuff is new for me (I'm under win-XP, and Windows user in general - since the beginning of windows platform, from 3.1 and 95; linux is foreign for me). I have a lot of my own books (scanned & OCR'ed), and to convert them into "yet another format" is not something that I like. most what I have - is in html, doc/rtf (ready to convert to html), djvu and pdf. nothing in exotic formats like fb2 or epub, because long long time ago, when I started to create my library - I decided that these strange formats are somehow useless (because of lack of many formatting features). E-ink itself is great. prices, marketing behind, technology progress (I observe it since years), software development, custom software capabilities - not. I feel like going back into a stone age; in XXI century! Calibre - starts on my computer (2.4GHz/2GB RAM), but when tried to convert something, after 5 minutes of intense HDD work (on an average doc file) without any results - I resigned (HDD killer?). I have other jobs to do; addicting to the "book converting process" is not one of them. I tried also something for automatic conversion, but lost necessary formatting, so this topic just waits for more detailed view. all I can say now is... "GRRRRRR...!!!!" :-D If I would know, I would probably buy viliv s5 umpc with ssd.