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mrmikel · 05-27-2010, 07:14 AM

From http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/faq.html

"What are the best source formats to convert?

In order of decreasing preference: LIT, MOBI, EPUB, HTML, PRC, RTF, PDB, TXT, PDF."

But you may find this order isn't exactly right if you are converting a number of books with particular properties, like academic journals or something like that, so experiment. Lit books are great, for example, but some I have converted have footnotes at the bottom of every page which is very disruptive to read in a small format like a Sony Reader. But in an IPad or tablet computer, it might well be just great.

The creation of a 1000 books starts with a single conversion.. Have fun!

05-27-2010, 07:14 AM	#2
mrmikel Color me gone Posts: 2,089 Karma: 1445295 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Oregon Coast Device: PRS-300	Which From http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/faq.html "What are the best source formats to convert? In order of decreasing preference: LIT, MOBI, EPUB, HTML, PRC, RTF, PDB, TXT, PDF." But you may find this order isn't exactly right if you are converting a number of books with particular properties, like academic journals or something like that, so experiment. Lit books are great, for example, but some I have converted have footnotes at the bottom of every page which is very disruptive to read in a small format like a Sony Reader. But in an IPad or tablet computer, it might well be just great. The creation of a 1000 books starts with a single conversion.. Have fun!