oh my god i think i broke it. please help.

[kaas]

hmm, but can calibre convert drm'ed mobi?

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by kaas

hmm, but can calibre convert drm'ed mobi?

no, i think you have to remove the drm first (for any format). i'm trying to remember if i've tried any drm-ed mobi since i've started using calibre... i know i bought one recently but i think i haven't converted it yet. but lit is really easy.

[nekokami]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

looking at igorsk's photos of the dismantled 700 (he posted a thread) the top (touch) screen seems to be a bit smoky coloured ; i don't know whether this is inevitable.

Nearly all the touch-screen technologies involve some kind of coating on the screen. (The exceptions I can think of are Wacom, which needs a special stylus, and the new Epson screen that somehow analyzes stress on the surface or something.) This is, for example, why the eBw1150 isn't all that readable in sunlight. The resistive coating traps too much light.

[Dedale]

12mo for a rtf... it's quite a file !

Happy to see you on the road again Miss

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Dedale

12mo for a rtf... it's quite a file !

Happy to see you on the road again Miss

that's nothing, my first version was 20mo it's the Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française, you can get your own copy from ebooks libres et gratuits, see this thread : https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26897 (but in mobi format. if i manage to make an epub i'll post it here. so far no luck... )

[mcramer]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

oh and by the way : 700 users, i recommend you do NOT try to stick a 12mo rtf file on there. it doesn't like that AT ALL.

That's a shame 'cos my format of choice is RTF. Maybe because 90% of the stuff I read is fiction with no images and it's nice to have a standard format actually on the reader that I can double click on to edit when the reader is mounted.

Takes a significant amount of time to format the doc the first time but after that it's all good........ I have never had a 12 meg file before though

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by mcramer

That's a shame 'cos my format of choice is RTF. Maybe because 90% of the stuff I read is fiction with no images and it's nice to have a standard format actually on the reader that I can double click on to edit when the reader is mounted.

Takes a significant amount of time to format the doc the first time but after that it's all good........ I have never had a 12 meg file before though

yes, 12mo is a lot... plus i'm discovering this file has all kinds of insane formatting in it and i bet you once i strip that out it will be down to a reasonable size. i'm working on it. i'm doing a search and replace in dreamweaver to get rid of the obnoxious <br style="page-break-after:always" /> which i discovered were after every single word entry (it's a dictionary) ; it's been several minutes and it's still not done.

after that i'm going after the egregious font tags which are sprinkled liberally throughout it and whatever else i find. i bet you the finished html file is about 1/3 the original weight.

[Seabound]

Ah, congratulations on a shiny, new PRS-700. I hope it serves you well for a long time. Happy reading!

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Seabound

Ah, congratulations on a shiny, new PRS-700.

thank you.

I hope it serves you well for a long time. Happy reading!

from your lips to the liseuse god's ear... no more scary crashes please !

[Liviu_5]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

yes, 12mo is a lot... plus i'm discovering this file has all kinds of insane formatting in it and i bet you once i strip that out it will be down to a reasonable size. i'm working on it. i'm doing a search and replace in dreamweaver to get rid of the obnoxious <br style="page-break-after:always" /> which i discovered were after every single word entry (it's a dictionary) ; it's been several minutes and it's still not done.

after that i'm going after the egregious font tags which are sprinkled liberally throughout it and whatever else i find. i bet you the finished html file is about 1/3 the original weight.

I think the weird formatting is the problem not the size or the number of files. I do not use a sd card, but as a test I loaded 1050 books on a 1gb one, mostly lrf's with some pdf's sprinkled around and the 700 had no problems with it after about 2 minutes wait to index the card. I easily and fast navigated the card using both search and touch-jump based on author/title and the side letter, opened several random books, changed font...

As files I tried two 100MB+ pdf's - scan images really dumped in a pdf - and the 700 had no problems accessing or navigating the files.

Currently I am reading a 8MB lrf file - converted from a 8MB bought prc, a recent excellent book about the Nazi-Soviet war with maps, charts, images, footnotes and whatever and I have no problems - fast navigation, easy font change, easy zoom in charts/maps if you wish - I read maybe about 1/3 so far and it works as well as any other lrf book.

I have a 27MB lrf again coming from a prc, this time a biography with pictures, genealogies and such and again no problems reading it on the 700, as well as any pdf's either fiction or science that I tried. Even drm'ed ones from e-NYPL. The only hiccups were some Google pdf's that have pictures not recognized by the 700, but they are not recognized by ADE on my PC either so the problem is on Adobe's side, not on the 700 implementation.

So I think that size is not a problem if the book is properly formatted. Just use Calibre to get a lrf or an e-pub for any non-pdf, do not use rtf or txt directly

[JSWolf]

Congrats on the shiny new Sony Reader PRS-700. If you need any help with content conversion, please ask. What you might be able to do with that large RTF is use Book Designer to convert it to LRF.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Congrats on the shiny new Sony Reader PRS-700. If you need any help with content conversion, please ask. What you might be able to do with that large RTF is use Book Designer to convert it to LRF.

thanks, that's very kind of you. so far i've been using calibre to create epub files from the books i have already with no trouble. this file is rather particular because it's huge. i'm trying to make a proper epub (mostly by hand) now, we'll see how it goes. i'm avoiding Book Designer ; i have a rather unpleasant memory of the last time i tried it out, and i think there are better tools around for what i want to do, particularly since i'm not planning to make many lrf conversions i don't think.

[sayhello]

So glad you were able to get your PRS-700 restarted! I think most of us have had that kind of heart-stopping moment with ours.

This forum is so great for that kind of help. I pointed a friend of mine to mobileread when her Kindle appeared to "bite the dust" and she was able to get it reset & just fine. These people rock!

Sayhello

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by sayhello

So glad you were able to get your PRS-700 restarted! I think most of us have had that kind of heart-stopping moment with ours.

i'm glad too !!

This forum is so great for that kind of help. I pointed a friend of mine to mobileread when her Kindle appeared to "bite the dust" and she was able to get it reset & just fine. These people rock!

Sayhello

yes.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

I have 161 on my 505 at present and it's not struggling. Of those probably about a dozen are on SD card.

I have 342 books (almost all of them novels or novel-length collections of short stories) on my 505.

I use no memory cards.

No PDFs at all.

All but about 5 files are lrf files.

No problems at all.


Don