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Old 11-07-2008, 03:41 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by billbirchall View Post
I have recently downloaded a book by David Eddings called Tamuli, from All About Ebooks. I converted the file using Calibre, to LRF for reading on my Sony PRS-505. Unfortunately, the converted file is awful to read as in a number of instances, sentences finish halfway across a line and finish on the next line. Is there anything that can be done to improve the presentation. Should I have used Calibre, should I converted to some other format?

Any guidance will be appreciated.
Forum members much more expert than I am will no doubt jump in to help you shortly.

I don't think telling us the book was a RAR file helps much. RAR files are zipped files that can be of any format. Your RAR file was possibly a PDF or LIT or HTML. After you have identified it, you will find discussions elsewhere on this forum on how best to convert it.

Personally I like to reduce all ebook files to text and then use hard sweaty manual labour in Ebook Tidy and MS WORD to turn it into a nice RTF file - but there are more efficient methods.

Second thoughts:

(Umm.... RAR files are usually torrent downloads these days. Are you SURE it came from All About Ebooks? People here will be reluctant to help you if it is a pirate).

Last edited by RCR; 11-07-2008 at 03:55 PM. Reason: after thoughts
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