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Originally Posted by Davimee
First of all, welcome!  And congratulations on your Pocket Pro! I've got one, and I love it! And to be honest... I love fanfic as well! In fact, lately that's mostly what I've been reading. The shows I like don't have much to offer in the area of books, especially ebooks, so I get my fix that way. I love sci fi, and there is plenty of fan fiction out there!
I've found that I convert most of mine to .rtf and read them in the CoolReader program that was in the latest firmware upgrade. Unfortunately, that firmware has been taken down because of battery drain issues, and I'm not sure what the CoolReader looks like in the previous issue. I like the way a book is formatted better in epub, so anything in epub will work well. You can search and also easily increase text size in epub, so I would recommend that for your brother's books.
Do you have Calibre? That's a great (free!) program for converting books to whatever format you need.
I know .txt and .html can be read on the Pocket Pro, but I haven't tried it, so I don't know how it looks. I think the next time I download a fanfic I'll try it in html and save myself a step.
PDF can zoom, but if I'm going to zoom I prefer epub. .rtf zooms well in CoolReader, but again that's the latest one, and I'm not sure how the December one does. (Really the main reason I like the newer firmware is because you can set it to have a visible clock in the CoolReader program, and I need that so I don't get carried away and read way too late.  )
If I didn't answer something, or didn't answer clearly enough, let me know! I'll be back to the forums either later tonight or tomorrow. But there are many others here who can help you out, as well! Welcome! |
Dear Davimee:
It was not so long ago when you were a newbie! Now you are one of the ever-helpful and quite wonderful people on this forum!!
I thank you for helping so many new people get adjusted to the device!!