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Old 02-23-2010, 07:50 AM   #1
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Anyone else enjoying fb2. In fact it is making me rethink epub... even though everyone tells me epub is the wave of te future.... The options for fb2 are excellent for the average reader. For me being able to set the screen in any of the four directions (obvious to me for ergonomic reasons and differences of holding devices) is enough of a reason to love fb2.

any other fb2 supporters... are there any downsides to fb2???????
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Anyone else enjoying fb2. In fact it is making me rethink epub... even though everyone tells me epub is the wave of te future.... The options for fb2 are excellent for the average reader. For me being able to set the screen in any of the four directions (obvious to me for ergonomic reasons and differences of holding devices) is enough of a reason to love fb2.

any other fb2 supporters... are there any downsides to fb2???????
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Others can be more specific but I have only heard a lot of love for FB2 on the Pocket PRO. In a new thread today I mentioned that a new firmware upgrade is coming which, amongst other things, will install the latest version of FB2. You can thank Dale for telling me that it was getting a bit old.
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any other fb2 supporters... are there any downsides to fb2???????
It is the only format that I read on the PocketPRO, although I use the Lbook firmware with the more modern CoolReader for FB2. I don't have much use for the ADE used to read EPUB on the PocketPRO. CoolReader has much better support for different fonts and font sizes, and a better page counting algorithm IMHO. FB2 seems to be an elegantly simple text only ebook format, and it is one of the most compact when it is ZIPed. Every time I build a new book the ZIPed FB2 comes out smaller than the EPUB. CoolReader will automatically open the ZIP file on the reader.The main drawback to FB2 is that book sellers do not seem to sell books in the FB2 format, so you usually need to be able to do your own conversions.
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Am I the only one who doesn't know what fb2 is? The first time I saw someone post something about it, I thought it had something to do with Face Book. *lol*
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Am I the only one who doesn't know what fb2 is? The first time I saw someone post something about it, I thought it had something to do with Face Book. *lol*


There are probably a WHOLE LOT more people that DO NOT know about it than there are people that do know about it, since it is nearly impossible to find books sold in that format. It is a great format if you like to build or rebuild your own books though. The BookDesigner program makes a pretty good FB2 formatted book, and the book can be easily tweaked further using just a simple text editor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FictionBook
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Am I the only one who doesn't know what fb2 is?
See Wiki: FB2.

FB2 (an ebook format) is often confused with FBReader (reading software that reads FB2 and many other formats). On the EZ Reader's FB2 is actually read using CoolReader software.
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Dave_S, thanks for the explanation, and the link!
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Am I the only one who doesn't know what fb2 is? The first time I saw someone post something about it, I thought it had something to do with Face Book. *lol*
As always our wiki is your friend FB2.

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There are probably a WHOLE LOT more people that DO NOT know about it than there are people that do know about it, since it is nearly impossible to find books sold in that format. It is a great format if you like to build or rebuild your own books though. The BookDesigner program makes a pretty good FB2 formatted book, and the book can be easily tweaked further using just a simple text editor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FictionBook

Ta for the info. I use Calibre...seems to convert well to fb2. I still like epub, but have mixed my collection with more and more fb2 over the days. do you know what will be new in the FB2 update?
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Ta for the info. I use Calibre...seems to convert well to fb2. I still like epub, but have mixed my collection with more and more fb2 over the days. do you know what will be new in the FB2 update?
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I only know that the FB2 on the Pocket PRO is about 17 months old and there is a new version. They will go to the new version so it will be current. I do not know the differences between the older version and this new one. But, I would think it will make it work even better.
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Ta for the info. I use Calibre...seems to convert well to fb2. I still like epub, but have mixed my collection with more and more fb2 over the days. do you know what will be new in the FB2 update?
The FictionBook format has been at version 2.2 for a while now, so there is no change in the FB2 format itself. However, the CoolReader program has gone from version 2 to version 3, so if Astak releases new firmware with CoolReader version 3.x then all the new CoolReader features will be available, including the ability to read EPUB. You can see a summary of CoolReader 3 features on the MobileRead wiki.
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Ta for the info. I use Calibre...seems to convert well to fb2. I still like epub, but have mixed my collection with more and more fb2 over the days. do you know what will be new in the FB2 update?
As Dave_S said, the FB2 format is at v2.2. That in itself isn't being changed, just the reading software. Currently (for me) I can not open fb2 files with embedded pics or links, but was successful opening those files using the LBook firmware (far later version of the FB2 viewer). So hopefully little bugs like that will be sorted out.
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The FictionBook format has been at version 2.2 for a while now, so there is no change in the FB2 format itself. However, the CoolReader program has gone from version 2 to version 3, so if Astak releases new firmware with CoolReader version 3.x then all the new CoolReader features will be available, including the ability to read EPUB. You can see a summary of CoolReader 3 features on the MobileRead wiki.
Hope it goes in that direction...then.... I would be most satisfied....
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Nope, you're not the only one. I did read what FB2 was, but I have never seen a book in that format. And when I converted one of my books using Calibre, it wouldn't open.
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Nope, you're not the only one. I did read what FB2 was, but I have never seen a book in that format. And when I converted one of my books using Calibre, it wouldn't open.
I have not used Calibre for quite a while, but when I did use it, it was far from being the best way of generating an FB2 book file. It might be a lot better now? For FB2 generation, OOoFBTools for OpenOffice, or BookDesigner are OK for generating FB2 book files.
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