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I take it you have an older Mac with the Motorola processor set, not one of the newer ones with the Intel Core 2? Because with the newer ones it's possible to install WinXP into its own drive partition and dual-boot. Perhaps an el-cheapo used notebook PC might be the solution??? That is, if you have a lot of ebooks to format.
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01-18-2008, 06:54 PM | #18 |
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I think you miss my point. As I have mentioned, I have a virtual Windows machine on my Mac, I use Mobipocket Creator right now.
What I *WANT* is to work on my Mac, and not be forced to switch when I want to create an ebook. That's all. Up to now, I had a Palm M515 as my ebook reader. I am used to being able to create my books on the Mac. I would wish to be able to continue to do so. Last edited by adelheid; 01-18-2008 at 07:03 PM. |
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I have used Pordible. I have tried them all. But only Ebook Studio/DropBook can create files with chaptering, headings and footnotes and all, as far as I know. The output of the other tools is not much different from plain text files (which I can read on the Cybook just fine, after all, no need for conversion).
I don't insist on the PalmDoc format at all. I just want to be able to create ebooks, on the Mac, with chapters, headings, footnotes. Any format will do, as long as it is readable on the Cybook and doesn't require switching to Windows. If it is not possible, then it is not possible. I would still like to know however, how anyone was able to read Ebook Studio formatted pdb's on the Cybook. That was my original question. Last edited by adelheid; 01-18-2008 at 07:57 PM. |
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http://www.ereader.com/products/ebookstudio The CyBook has never been able to read eReader books. In fact, no eInk device will read this format. |
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"PDB" is not a format, Jon. You can have ANY type of information in a PDB file.
FBReader will read PalmDoc and MobiPocket files. I don't believe it'll read eReader files; I'm sure that someone will correct me if I'm wrong. |
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As soon as I stumbled across BookDesigner, I switched from eBook Studio to BD because I really wanted to be able to create pdb-Palmdoc, prc-Palmdoc, Sony lrf and MS-Reader lit files and I couldn't do that with eBook Studio. Thus, I have a mixture of eBook Studio pdb and BD pdb ebooks. (And for the definition Nazis here, I'm calling them ebooks as a shorthand from writing 'html or text ebooks stuffed into the pdb file structure' because that's what *EVERY* ordinary person does. ) Derek |
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