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Originally Posted by Chikwako
I have experimented with the different formats, downloaded Calibre and have converted text books into epub, mobi and fb2 -- which turns out to be the best (in my view) for the widest selection of font sizes, as seen in Cool Reader in the EZReader PP. This is very important since my Mom (or anybody approaching 70, I imagine) would hate this gift if she can't read the books in it.
However, some paragraphs are broken where they're not supposed to be, some characters (specially the accented vowels) convert to other characters. I have added some conversion plug-ins to Open Office Writer, but they have too many options, many that I don't understand, and I don't have much time since her birthday is coming soon.
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Just an assumption here, and I could be wrong, but it sounds like you are trying to set up some books that you downloaded from the internet. Thing is, a LOT of these books are scanned paper copies, and they don't get proofed very well. Most of them are PDF files, and if they aren't, someone has just converted them from someones scanned PDF.
As far as your paragraph breaks and other difficulties, I'll bet the problem is in your source files. It will not matter what file type you convert them to, or how you set up your reader. If your source file is trash, you are going to get a trashy output.
You have two choices. (Well there are others, but this isn't the place to go into them.) Either purchase books from a reputable ebook store so that they are formatted correctly(try
www.EZread.com), or be prepared to spend a LOT of time per book for editing/formatting. Check out the Workshop forum if you want to go the editing route.