11-09-2008, 11:10 PM | #1 |
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Hi there,
I have a PDF document w/o DRM. It's a book that clocks in at 170 pages or so. I wouldn't mind to be able to do the following with it: 1. Read it in FBReader. 2. Read it in Stanza. 3. Read it in MobiPocket on my Blackberry. I played around with Calibre earlier on my Ubuntu machine and was able to easily convert to LRF, but that doesn't really get me anywhere. I am happy to do some line editing if necessary. Cheers, Mike... |
11-10-2008, 12:04 AM | #2 |
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You could try importing it into Windows MobiPocket Reader. It will convert simple PDFs to MOBI. The result will end up in your default MOBI directory (usually My Documents\My eBooks).
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11-10-2008, 12:09 AM | #3 |
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you can convert it to epub in calibre which will allow you to read it in fbreader, stanza, etc
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11-10-2008, 12:16 AM | #4 |
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11-10-2008, 11:54 AM | #5 |
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I think, though, that any unmodified conversion would result in improperly broken lines, right? At least it did when I viewed Calibre's LRF. I would think, then I'd need to be able to edit the resulting text.
Am I on the wrong track with this thinking? |
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11-10-2008, 12:11 PM | #6 |
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depends, both conversion software try to remove unneccessary hard line breaks. How succesful they are varies from file to file.
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For this output, look in: Code:
C:\Documents and Settings\{your login name}\My Documents\My Publications\ |
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11-10-2008, 01:54 PM | #8 |
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Oh, I didn't mean to imply that Calibre had done a bad job. Knowing what I know about PDFs, I was very pleased. I just thought I should be able to edit the text in order to assuage by anal-retentiveness. Sounds like Mobipocket creator will work.
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Each conversion tool (Calibre, Mobipocket Creator/Reader, PDFRead (plug), ...) has its strengths and weaknesses and it is wonderful that we have such varied choices to attack the common enemy: Converting .pdf for use on ebook readers! Last edited by nrapallo; 11-10-2008 at 03:40 PM. Reason: typo |
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