Profile for generic tiny phone reader

GossG · 03-09-2012, 11:28 AM

I just bought a Symbian phone. There are a stack of epub readers for this phone, but none of them seem to work right except for Bubue. Bubue chokes on italic or accented letters, and I'm wondering if Calibre can strip these out in the conversion?

The phone has a PDF reader and a Word clone. The latter chokes on the books I've tried to send it, and of course PDF gives me either microprint or I have to keep pulling it left and right to see it. The default is readable in landscape, but I want to read in portrait.

My second question therefore would be how to tell Calibre that I want to turn novels into PDFs to be read on a screen an inch and 3/4 wide.

ilovejedd · 03-09-2012, 03:11 PM

Why not just use plain text format? Calibre can convert to that. On a screen that tiny, the lack of formatting shouldn't matter much.

theducks · 03-09-2012, 06:14 PM

GossG · 03-16-2012, 10:41 PM

Uh, Ducks? You posted a blank message.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

Why not just use plain text format? Calibre can convert to that. On a screen that tiny, the lack of formatting shouldn't matter much.

I thought I posted a reply this afternoon, but I don't see it here.

I tried getting Calibre to convert the novel to text. I miss the chapter hotlinks. And the "note" reader in my phone is pretty pathetic. I haven't tried the RTF version yet.

I'd rather have a "bubue" configuration in Calibre that takes out the formatting that the usable ebook reader can handle. Or configs that produce books that the other three readers for Symbian don't choke on.

03-09-2012, 11:28 AM	#1
GossG Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: Bubue books in Symbian	Profile for generic tiny phone reader I just bought a Symbian phone. There are a stack of epub readers for this phone, but none of them seem to work right except for Bubue. Bubue chokes on italic or accented letters, and I'm wondering if Calibre can strip these out in the conversion? The phone has a PDF reader and a Word clone. The latter chokes on the books I've tried to send it, and of course PDF gives me either microprint or I have to keep pulling it left and right to see it. The default is readable in landscape, but I want to read in portrait. My second question therefore would be how to tell Calibre that I want to turn novels into PDFs to be read on a screen an inch and 3/4 wide.

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03-09-2012, 03:11 PM	#2
ilovejedd hopeless n00b Posts: 5,111 Karma: 19597086 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: in the middle of nowhere Device: PW4, PW3, Libra H2O, iPad 10.5, iPad 11, iPad 12.9	Why not just use plain text format? Calibre can convert to that. On a screen that tiny, the lack of formatting shouldn't matter much.

03-09-2012, 06:14 PM	#3
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,779 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A

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