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Thank you for all your help. Because of your clear, concise answers I have take the plunge and bought my Sony Reader. I had to grow used to the lack of a light, but I have to say that so far, I am very pleased. It is very easy to use (very little learning curve required) and extremely easy to add/remove books from it.
I wish there was an easy way to change the titles/authors of books on the Reader tho. Some of my pdfs read just fine, but they show up as "untitled" or no title at all and do not show author information. Other than this, I am beginning to like this alot. |
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The problem with the title/author info for the PDF is the fault of the PDF and how it was generated. If these PDF are just text, you could use PDF2lrf or PDF2html (then edit and convert to LRF) to convert from PDF and have a better reading experience.
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I understand that now. What I was referring to was some sort of file manager abilities on the reader itself. That is not possible right now. Also the connect software has zero ability to rename a book, change an author or any sort of maintenance tools it seems. It seems that the connect software (short of transferring books to the Reader) is useless. I was told by the salesman at the Sony Store that the connect software was like iTunes for the iPod. However, this is not even close to correct. With iTunes, I can rename mp3 listings, change info, etc. I wish I could do that with the Connect software.
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Well I cannot get the libprs500 program to work on my computer. I download the Windows version and when I run it, nothing happens. I think I will goto their site and talk to them about it.
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When you run the installer, does it install?
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Er, it is a command line application, not a "GUI" one. If you just "double click" it in Windows Explorer then indeed not a lot will happen. You need to start a command prompt and then type "libprs500 mybook.htm" (where "mybook.htm" is the HTML file you wish to convert, plus whatever other command-line parameters you want). Typing "libprs500" with no parameters will display the list of options in the command window.
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Yes it does
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Then why is there a Windows executable downloadable file? Why on that page does it show screenshots of the GUI? See for yourself. https://libprs500.kovidgoyal.net/wiki/Screenshots |
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I'm not terribly familiar with the tool, but my understanding is that the GUI only applies to a part of the application. Are you sure that what you are attempting to run is the GUI "shell" and not the underlying command-line tool?
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I download the program from the site. There is nothing on the site that leads me to believe that it is not a full program, or requires any other program installed.
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The GUI you are seeing is the part of the package used to move content to/from your Reader. The tools to actually convert content are command lind programs.
html2lrf.exe lit2lrf.exe lrf-meta.exe pdf2lrf.exe rtf2lrf.exe txt2lrf.exe web2lrf.exe pdftohtml.exe All of the listed programs require a command prompt to run. An example is ... c:\web>html2lrf webpage.html That's saying your content is in a directory called web on your C drive. And if you type just the name of the program it will display the command line options. But because it's too much for the screen, I suggest doing something like html2lrf > html2lrf.txt and that way you'll have a text file called html2lrf that has all the commands/help. You can do that for all the different programs. Most of the commands are the same so once you learn them, they'll work cross program. |
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No, I think you've misunderstood my post. What I meant is are you sure that the program that you're trying to run is a GUI application and not a command-line one? As Jon says, all the actual conversion tools in the package are command-line tools, not GUI applications.
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After the installation completes. Start->Run->type cmd.exe
In the command prompt type: Code:
cd c:\path\to\my\directory html2lrf myfile.html |
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Well, if everything is a command line program, then what purpose does the Windows install serve? It seems ridiculous to offer a Windows program and give screen shots if it is crap.
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I think it's mainly that kovidgoyal is still in the process of building the GUI, pcinfoman, but is sharing the pieces with the community as he goes.
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